Many thanks to:
Eric Z. Ayers
Guy Dallaire
Kurt Carlson
Dr. Tom Blinn
David Warren
for relieving me of some of the weight of my mainframe ignorance! :)
In my particular instance, including
"quote SITE RECFM(FB) LRECL(500) BLKSIZE(9000)"
made everybody happy. Thanks again! (BTW: yes, MVS)
Original question:
>On an Alpha 3000/800s DU3.2c:
>
>I need to run a CRON that starts a FTP macro which daily transfers a
>file ascii mode from the Alpha to an IBM mainframe. The file has a line
>length of 500 bytes, yet when transfered to the mainframe shows a record
>length of 80. Why? And how can I send the file in the ascii mode and
>have the mainframe see a 500 byte record length.
>
>Sorry if this is a no-brainer, but I can't find any info about this in
>the man pages. Sincere TIA.... Mike G
>
Received on Thu May 08 1997 - 22:43:06 NZST