Yes. I know what you mean. I do a similar thing. I ftp the SMPMCS.pax.Z file to z/OS. OCOPY that file into a HFS. UNZIP back to a sequential dataset. RECEIVE from that DS to SMPE. A rigmarole indeed but it works.
Just waiting for "them" to close that loophole. David Elliot zSeries Software Support -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 3:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: not wise, but how to reduce CPU to receive SMP/E PTFs. I'm just "goofing around". I put in a PTF order on ShopzSeries. The downloaded file structure contains two files of interest. They are S0002.SHOPZ.S9346597.SMPHOLD.pax.Z and S0001.SHOPZ.S9346597.SMPMCS.pax.Z . I can't bring these directly to my z/OS system due to policy. So I use Download Director to get them in a subdirectory on my Linux machine. I found, in this particular case, the first "SMPHOLD.pax.Z" file contained a file called SMPHOLD. It turns out that this is an EBCDIC encoded file with 80 characters records with no record boundries. the SMPMCS.pax.Z file contains a file called SMPPTFIN. If you don't want to use all the CPU that a RECEIVE FROMNTS uses, it appears that you can ftp these files to sequential files like: bin quote site wrap lrecl=80 recfm=fb pri=1000 sec=100 cylinders put SMPPTFIN put SMPHOLD And the resulting file on z/OS will actually be usable for a standard RECEIVE. Of course, this does not work with anything which has relfiles. Again, I would never do this myself. But I found it interesting for this one, single, application. And I remember somebody asking something about this before. John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-691-6183 cell john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
