On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 08:44:30 -0400, David Andrews wrote: > >In around 2007, I had an archive-to-CD prototype running. You gave it a >list of MVS datasets and it would offload them to a PC (after converting >to AWS format). The PC burned a pair of CDs and compared them to make >sure the CDs were readable and that they agreed. Then the PC submitted > If the CD id burned from a .iso image, it's possible on either OS X or Solaris to read the character special file underlying the mounted CD and compare it exactly to the .iso. On Windows, ImgBurn will extract a .iso from a CD; I wouldn't know how to script it.
Has mkisofs been ported to z/OS? >a job back to the MVS system containing the offloaded data; the job >executed a test restore and compared the result with the original >dataset. Only then was the programmer notified that the offload was >complete and the archive was verified as valid and restorable. > I haven't compared byte-by-byte; only compared MD5 checksums. >Back on topic, I used IEBCOMPR to do the dataset verify. If all you >want to do is compare entire datasets then IEBCOMPR works rather well. > Which DSORGs will this handle? PS, of course. What about PDS, PDSE, Program Objects, HFS, zFS, *SDS VSAM? What AWS utilities do you recommend? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
