We have released a new set of free tools for z/OS on our website, http://dovetail.com
Dataset Pipes for z/OS ================= Features: o Pipe input to an MVS dataset (todsn) o Pipe output from an MVS dataset ( fromdsn) o Remote open-source SSH client commands (todsn-ssh and fromdsn-ssh) o Remote SSH Java Api o Supports text or binary conversion via flexible line-termination rules o Supports flexible record padding / overflow rules o Codepage translation via high-performance z/OS conversion services o Specify additional open options and dynamic allocation keywords o User and/or system profile can be used to automatically supply conversion options based dataset name matching.Here are some examples from the online cookbook: Some examples from the online cookbook: Copy to an MVS dataset, overriding target DCB attributes: cat /home/user/myfile | todsn -o 'recfm=fb,lrecl=80' MVS1.DATASET1 Download an MVS dataset over an SSH connection (Windows): fromdsn-ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] -l crlf -t iso8859-1 mvs1.input.dataset > c:\data.txt Copy an MVS dataset from one z/OS system to another over an SSH connection: fromdsn -k -l rdw mvs1.input.dataset | todsn-ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] -l rdw mvs2.output.dataset Copy one MVS dataset to another using the same attributes: fromdsn mvs1.input.dataset | todsn -x 'new like(mvs1.input.dataset)' mvs1.output.dataset The package and documentation are available for download at http://www.dovetail.com, and are licensed under the Apache 2 license. The package is a beta release at this point; we would appreciate any comments and suggestions on the forum at http://dovetail.com/forum Kirk Wolf and Steve Goetze Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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