Download
You can use Download to transmit a print data set from the JES spool to file systems on Content Manager OnDemand servers.
The z/OS® component of Download operates as one or more JES writers. You configure the writers to interpret JCL parameters, such as CLASS and DEST, and route spool files to a Content Manager OnDemand server. You can use other JCL parameters, such as FORM and DATASET to determine the application group and application to load. Download transmits data in binary format.
To conserve space and increase transmission speed, Download truncates a record if it contains one
or more blank characters (X'40') at the end of the record. As a result, after
transmitting a report to the server, some records might contain fewer characters than the
assumed record length. If the location of a FIELD begins outside the actual length of a record,
ACIF fails unless you specify a DEFAULT value. For example, a report on the
z/OS
system contains fixed length records, each 133 bytes in
length. Columns 129 through 133 of the records contain audit data generated by the application
program. You define an audit field, to extract the values of columns 129 through 133 and store
them in the database. If a record has not been audited, the columns contain blank characters.
During transmission of the file, Download eliminates the blank characters from the end of all
records that contain X'40' in columns 129 through 133. To prevent ACIF from failing,
you must define a DEFAULT value for the field. For example:
FIELD2=1,129,4,(DEFAULT=X'D5D6D5C5')