Happy New Year!
In article <listserv%201012280016100756.0...@bama.ua.edu> you wrote: > On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 23:39:33 -0600, Arthur Gutowski wrote: > > > ><SARCASM> > >If you really want to have some fun, you should try their internet delivery. > ></SARCASM> > > > Didn't IBM solve that problem with RECEIVE FROMNETWORK. But SAS > doesn't believe in SMP/E. But I have no cause to boast. My > employer won't let me use that protocol as a supplier, and only > with difficulty as a client. > (Suggestion to IBM: extend RECEIVE FROMNETWORK to support HTTP[S] > as an alternative to FTP.) > >>The vendor's leaving processing to the customer on an unspecified > >>platform using uncontrolled utilities is rife with hazards. At > >>best, it introduces undocumented prerequisites. > > > >You ain't just whistlin' Dixie... XWindows, Java levels (PTF-sensitive, > >even)... > >to quote "Dogma": 'It *never* ends!' > > > >>Could the OP try building the tar archive on a Linux or OS X > >>or anything but Windows system? > > > >If I read it correctly, the tar is as-distributed on the DVD, so if that was > >not > >built properly to begin with, windoze is the only drop for the "untar". Then > I read it otherwise. From the OP: > On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 17:50:47 -0800, Schwarz, Barry A wrote: > If anyone has installed SAS 9.2 using a PC to read the DVDs > followed by using tar to prepare the "depot" for ftp to the > mainframe, ... > >you'd either have to NFS-mount that filespace somewhere, or transfer the > >entire kit and kaboodle to "re-tar" it properly. FWIW, once you have > >the "untar", you might as well just ftp it up to a z/OS Unix filesystem - > >just > >make sure your ftp client can process the whole tree and preserve the long > >path and file names. It took me a few failed installs before I realized > >that I > >forgot to "check the box" and some file buried *deep* in the tree lost part > >of > >its identity. > > > Is the package delivered as a *.zip? If so, could it be transmitted > as a BLOb to z/OS and unpacked with the "jar" command? If not, SAS > has missed another opportunity. > >FWIW, SAS tells me they are "working on" improvements to the process. > >Apparently, I'm not the only one who has raised a stink. > > > Feels like a SEV2 to me. Perhaps not to SAS. > Two regular contributors to this forum with SAS return addresses > have been conspicuously silent on this thread. Properly; it's > prudent to eschew controversy. But perhaps their employer could > make an official statement. Even just "Happy New Year". > -- 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 -- Don Poitras - SAS Development - SAS Institute Inc. - SAS Campus Drive sas...@sas.com (919) 531-5637 Cary, NC 27513 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
