Maybe not the clearest Subject:, sorry. But I'm wondering if anybody ftp downloads SYSOUT data which contains non-printable characters and so would be "ruined" if a normal EBCDIC->ASCII translation is done?
I'm looking at the possibility of maybe considering try to see (<grin> if I can write a UNIX based SAPI application which can copy SYSOUT from a job on the JES SPOOL to "stdout". Now, for doing this within z/OS itself, it is no problem. Just copy the data. Oh, but wait, if the data can contain binary (non printable) data, should there be a BINARY option? Hum, if so, what about "line endings"? Perhaps I need three options: TEXT, BINARY, and the new "RECORD" as defined by IBM which has a prefix of 0x00LLLLLL (four byte length field with first byte forced to be 0x00). Now, a problem arises. I also want to use ssh from a Linux desktop to z/OS to copy this data from the SPOOL to Linux similar to Dovetailed Technologies' "fromdsn" command. Which means that if anything other than TEXT is allowed, I must write a ssh subsystem to do a binary transport of the data from z/OS to Linux because the normal z/OS ssh interface does an automatic translation between EBCDIC and ASCII. The plus of using a subsystem would also be total control of the translate table for non-US languages, again like fromdsn. The minus is the need to actually write and debug the code. And to write a Linux (and perhaps other OS flavored version) command to talk to z/OS via this subsystem. I had considered two possible commands: "jesls" which basically does an "ls" type operation, but accesses the SPOOL. And a "jesout" which would copy one or more SPOOL entries for a job to "stdout". I have not yet really done any design. I plan to crib ideas from Dovetailed Technologies documentation of their "fromdsn" command as well as their enhanced sftp server. Is that valid? I'm actually sortof "stealing" their design ideas. I do feel some moral qualms about that. But I don't know if a UI of something that basic is really copyright-able. I guess I should ask them for permission. But what if they say "No"? -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
