Group, Our process is: LRSQ sends a binary PDF to DRS. DRS spools to a virtual printer. Now it sits in the spool with the x'40' on the left. The PDF is translated by the PDF viewer. However the PDF no longer starts with '%PDF-1.4'. That's how we get into this trouble. You can duplicate this using XMIT. By using XMIT I see the x'40', and appears to be real. I'm not sure about other ways to get things on the MVS spool. Like I said on VM I could PUNCH and IPL the reader. I'm just looking into a different way to get to the spool that won't put the x'40' in front OR a different type of spool file so when it gets there MVS leaves it untouched.
Thank you, Dave Dave Hansen Eagan Software Systems Branch 651-406-1208 [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 12:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: PRINT (NOCC for z/OS? On Thu, 9 Feb 2012 10:51:42 -0600, Bill Godfrey wrote: >On Thu, 9 Feb 2012 08:55:00 -0600, Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN wrote: > >> 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". >> I had thought everything in the VM spool had carriage control (actually a CCW opcode). But I defer to your experience. Perhaps IPL is unaffected by the CCS opcode present in the spool. >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. > Everything in CMS has records, but some processing, e.g. FTP BINARY STREAM, will ignore record boundaries. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
