On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 10:50:23AM -0700, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > In a recent note, Jay Maynard said: > > Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 11:04:49 -0600 > > On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 10:42:33AM -0600, Bill Godfrey wrote: > > > I don't know of any supported "terse" programs for the PC. > > Is the terse algorithm documented anywhere? > It's more than a mere algorithm in the conventional sense. TERSE > also bundles sufficient metadata to reconstruct a CKD data set or > a PDS(E?) when it's un-TERSEd.
Sounds like a reinvention of XMIT with compression added. > Anyone hoping to offload his TERSE operations to a desktop system > must have a scheme for transferring those metadata (as basic as > block boundaries) between the mainframe and the desktop system. This is a problem we already know how to solve, though; see XMIT Manager, as an example. > Another point: For the variety of uses to which IBM puts TERSE > (e.g. uploading problem substantiation to "testcase"; binary > files on service.software.ibm.com) it's irresponsible not to > make TERSE a supported base OS component. I agree. Fortunately, sucking tools like that into the base OS is something IBM will do if it's useful enough. (Health Checker, for example.) -- Jay Maynard, K5ZC http://www.conmicro.cx http://www.hercules-390.org http://www.tronguy.net http://jmaynard.livejournal.com (Yes, that's me!) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
