On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 20:23:53 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >on 11/03/2005 > at 08:28 AM, Skip Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >They are transferring huge files (3 -4 gig) from some other platform > >(probably Unix) to z/OS. They need to reduce transfer time from 8 > >hours. > > A Unix platform is probably using tar and gzip, which should work just > fine on your end. Unless you need the extra functionality, Info-Zip is > the obvious alternative to gzip. I don't know which of the two is > faster. > If it's gzipped or zipped but not tarred (there's some, but little, point in tarring a sequential file) a Rexx script can pipe the output of gunzip or funzip (the latter from info-ZIP) directly into IEBGENER with SYSUT2 allocated to a Classic data set. This removes the need for an HFS intermediate file. -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html