If you have ISPF on VM you can use option 3.6 the SPOOL utility XM option to send a whole set of files with the same lrecl and recfm to TSO as a PDS. For example, If I have a set of JCL files on VM I can send the whole set as * JCL with XM, and it arrives as an xmitted PDS on TSO. I get these messages: INMR901I Dataset A.ASTERISK.JCL from RBOLAN on BLDVMB INMR906A Enter restore parameters or 'DELETE' or 'END' +
Roger Bolan The IBM z/VM Operating System <IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> wrote on 08/07/2008 09:22:33 AM: > What I would like to do is take a list of CMS files and package them > together as a single data file compatible with the TSO XMIT and Windows > XMIT-Manager programs. I have looked at the PIPELINES BLOCK NETDATA (I am > > not that good a plumber) and at stacking NETDATA output files together > (SPOOL PUN CONT, NETDATA ... (NOSPOOL, SP PUN NOCONT CLOSE), but this doe > s > not produce a usable XMIT file. > > Does anyone have a procedure for combining multiple CMS files into a sing > le > XMIT data file? > > /Tom Kern > /301-903-2211