TSO Send Parameters

Send parameters are optional and are passed as parameters to the host IND$FILE program. When using the following positional parameters, care should be taken to include the "(" open parenthesis character and ")" close parentheses character in describing RECFM, LRECL, and BLKSIZE as denoted in the following example:

ASCII CRLF RECFM(F) LRECL(80) BLKSIZE(6160) 

The following parameters are valid for the MVS/TSO send file transfer operation:

ASCII
If the PC file consists of character data only, specify ASCII. This will cause the translation of all graphic and control characters from ASCII to EBCDIC during the transfer.

CRLF
Following the convention for ASCII text files, <CR> <LF> pairs are used to terminate records in the PC file, and a CTRL-Z (x'1A') marks the end of file. If the PC file consists of data other than text, such as binary format data, do not specify either ASCII or CRLF.

APPEND
If the data set already exists and is not empty, APPEND specifies that the contents of the PC file are to be appended to the data set. APPEND cannot be specified for members of a partitioned data set.

RECFM(x)
Specifies the record format of the data set. Replace x with either F, V, or U. F specifies that the data set contains fixed length records. V specifies that the data set contains variable length records. U specifies that the data set contains undefined length records. For existing data sets, the default value is the existing record format.

LRECL(n)
Specifies the logical record length (n) for a data set consisting of fixed length records or the maximum logical record length for a data set consisting of variable length records. Values permitted are 1 to 32760. For new data sets the default value is 80. This parameter is ignored if APPEND is specified. For data sets consisting of variable length records, the actual logical record length (i.e. the value stored in the Data Set Control Block) following the file transfer is set to the minimum of the value of LRECL and the longest record in the data set.

BLKSIZE(n)
Specifies the block size (n) for a new data set. For data sets containing fixed-length records, the block size must be a multiple of the record length. For data sets containing variable-length records, the block size must be greater than or equal to the record length plus four bytes. The block size must not exceed the track length of the device on which the data set resides. The block size must also not exceed 32,760 bytes. The default value is 3120. This parameter is ignored if the data set already exists.

SPACE(quantity[,increment])
Specifies the amount of disk space to be allocated for a new data set. If the SPACE parameter is used, you can use one of the three following options to specify the units used for quantity and increment: