On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 07:03:33 -0400, Lizette Koehler wrote:
>
>2) Use FREE product TRSMAIN from IBM to compress your dataset
>
Or, for the daring and avant-garde, AMATERSE.
>3) Create a DFDSS backup file
> Then FTP to PC using BIN format
> Use FTP to Upload to your target z/OS host
> Use DFDSS to restore your files.
>
What's the RECFM of a DFDSS backup file? If it's V, there's the
hazard FTP BIN may lose record boundaries, which may be
significant to the restore utility.
>Of course, perhaps you want to go directly from on z/OS host to another? If
>so, let us know what you have available. Are the z/OS hosts linked via
>TCPIP, NJE, etc? Why go to your PC first before getting it to the next
>system?
>
PDSes still need to be unloaded with TERSE or TRANSMIT. IEBCOPY
unloaded data sets have enough information in the BDWs to be
restored, but there's no conventional utility to do this.
On the workstation, one can sometimes preserve the format
with the commands"
binary
quote TYPE E
quote MODE B
on both download and upload.
-- gil
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