> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tony Harminc > Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 10:16 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Transmission files > > On 18 April 2011 08:27, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > On the other hand AMATERSE is neither free as in free beer nor free as > in free speech. TRSMAIN appears to be free as in free beer. But then > again, if you already have a z/OS licence... > > >>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. > > Worse - it's U. It will always be messed up if it goes through a > system that doesn't understand records. > > Tony H.
Not entirely. You can transmit a RECFM=U dataset from one z/OS to another, via an non-z/OS intermediary if you do: OPEN from-zos userid password BIN QUOTE STRU R GET dfdss.file CLOSE OPEN to-zos userid password BIN QUOTE SITE LRECL=??? RECFM=??? RECFM=U PRI=??? SEC=??? CYLINDERS QUOTE STRU R PUT dfdss.file But I'd use AMATERSE because it, like IEBCOPY, is a standard part of the z/OS system and so is always present. And it uses RECFM=F so you don't need the STRU R commands. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets® 9151 Boulevard 26 . N. Richland Hills . TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone . [email protected] . 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® is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company®, 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 [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
