On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 11:54:54 -0400, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: > >The motivation for this is the sad fact that the IBM FTP server does not set >statistics for RECFM=VB PDS/E members even when the SITE ISPFSTATS toggle is >set. It only does it for RECFM=FB PDS/E members, even at the z/OS V2.1 level. > WTF!? And why? I hadn't noticed that. Is it because it's easier to count lines if RECFM=FB (count bytes and divide by LRECL)? Or because revision level is/isn't available as the last two characters of the sequence numbers (shouldn't matter). Is this documented?
Does NFS have the same behavior? I'll need to test. I know that "touch" via NFS fails to update the time stamp. Can the programmer enable/disable stats with NFS? If the data originate from a z/OS (or CMS) system, it might be better to use TRANSMIT (SENDFILE)/RECEIVE. If you want to copy to/from a UNIX (etc.) system and replicate timestamps, you're probably SOL. (TRANSMIT/RECEIVE may have a 1-hour skew if a Daylight Saving boundary (or the Equator) is between. They could have done better.) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
