Gil, Are these requests for features that you would actually use?
re: the line separator option. These are the same as all of the other Co:Z tools have been for more than 10 years. It includes support for both RDWs and 4-byte big endian length. On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 10:41 AM Paul Gilmartin < [email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 13 Nov 2020 07:54:22 -0600, Kirk Wolf wrote: > > > >For more information: > >https://dovetail.com/docs/zos-utilities/dsp-ref_getpds.html > >https://dovetail.com/docs/zos-utilities/dsp-ref_putpds.html > >https://dovetail.com/docs/cozinstall/changes.html > >Co:Z is available free under our Community License > ><https://dovetail.com/docs/cozinstall/licenses.html>. > >> > Impressive! But I can still add suggestions: > > //DDNAME: format? > > -M option, as for /bin/cp to translate "_.-" (Oops! Option name > conflict!) > > upp[ercase]=y[es]|n[o] > file member names uppercased? (default=no: lower case) > Also "ASIS" for putpds in case UNIX directory contains foobar, > FooBar, and FOOBAR? (Does upp=yes for getpds actually mean > ASIS?) > > -l line-separator > nl | cr | lf | crlf | crnl > How about the equivalent of FILEDATA(RECORD) as supported by JCL? > "crnl"? "lfcr"? Damn IBM for conflating LF and NL! (I fear ISVs started > it!) > > Long member names? I understand PDSE supports long aliases (is that > only for program objects?) I could envision storing long UNIX member > names with generated member names and the original UNIX names > as aliases. Are they simply ignored? Warning? Likewise subdirectories? > > Should multiply-linked files be stored as aliases? Which name wins? > (How does ISPF behave when an alias or a member having an alias > is edited?) Should getpds render aliases as (symbolic?) links? > > >> >FWIW: It's a pity that the IBM C library doesn't have any support for > >> BLDL/NOTE/POINT processing of PDS/Es -- see my old RFE and vote if you > agree: > >> > > >> > https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=80811 > > -- 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
