On Thu, 9 Feb 2012 08:55:00 -0600, Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN <[email protected]> wrote:
>Group, > > I think this is it: >NOCC means to not interpret the first character of an input record as carriage >control; it does not mean to write SPOOL records without carriage control. > > We are storing PDFs on the MVS spool. When being read through some software > there is an extra space being presented on the left of each record. > I did an XMIT and saw the same results when viewing the spool. That format > should have been like "netdata" that's independent of the source DCB stuff. > I remember the VM punch queue was limited to 80 bytes and didn't write out > carriage control because you could IPL it. I imagine MVS also has these > other spool "types". I don't think the 80 byte record length will meet our > "wants". > > So, I guess I'd being going against the grain to look at 'removing' that > pesky x'40' from the 133 byte spool records creating 132 byte spool records. > In the first response to your original post, Paul Gilmartin asked how you "put stuff on the spool". If you explain how you are putting the PDF file on the spool, you might get some more help. I don't think PDF's have "records", certainly not 132- or 133-byte records. So maybe you mean to say to are running a program that reads PDFs and writes text to the spool. But you are not saying so. Bill ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
