Have a couple of questions that possibly someone who has been down this
road before might be able to help with. Have an application that has both a
mainframe and a desktop component. The z/OS side is the data generating side
that creates some statistical data. The desktop is used for a GUI to display
the data. The current state of the application is that the z/OS side creates
some summary data in CSV format, and the desktop picks it up using FTP. I want
to get away from summary data and FTP, and give the desktop application a
'closer look' at the data before it is summarized. The z/OS component already
produces all of the data the desktop would need, but it is in character format.
I could just open a pipe between the desktop and z/OS, and shove the data down
the pipe. Desktop application is smart enough to parse out the data it needs
from the records. But, the volume of records could get fairly large in some
instances. Since it is character data, it probably lends itself well to some
type of compression. Does anyone know of a compression product that runs on
both platforms?
2nd question. The z/OS application could compute the amount of data to be
transmitted over the pipe prior to creating the data. What affects the speed
of transfer besides the size of the pipe? How important is the size of the
data block on each PUT? Thanks in advance for any help on this.
--Dave Day
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