On Thursday 15 June 2006 17:07, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6886160.html > > A method of distributing mainframe software and data using PC-based > data media is disclosed, comprising a mainframe program for > converting a mainframe sequential dataset or all or part of a > mainframe library of texts or load modules to a sequential dataset > of fixed length records ...
A number of similar solutions were quite common in the 1980s and the 1990s. Below, I pasted part of the comments from the 1995 version of the SYSMOVE utility program which is still distributed on the CBT tape. I stopped using SYSMOVE in 1996 or 1997 when I learned about TRANSMIT OUTDA() from Doug Nadel. This is yet another example of how the U.S. Patent Office (USPTO) is broken - this patent should never have been issued in the first place. Software patents are a very bad idea anyway. -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Using SYSMOVE to distribute a PDS on PC diskettes. SYSMOVE provides a convenient way to distribute a PDS via PC diskette, using the following procedure: 1. unload the PDS with SYSMOVE 2. download the unloaded data set to a PC in EBCDIC using the "RECEIVE" command: RECEIVE pc_file_name unloaded_data_set_name 3. pack the PC file with PKZIP (or equivalent) 4. copy the packed file to a diskette 5. send the diskette out; whoever you send it to does not need SYSMOVE to process it. On the receiving MVS system, re-create the PDS as follows: 1. unpack the diskette file (if it's been packed) 2. upload the unpacked file in EBCDIC using the "SEND" command: SEND pc_file_name unloaded_data_set_name recfm(fb) lrecl(80) blksize(800) 3. load the uploaded data set into a PDS using IEHMOVE: //RELOAD EXEC PGM=IEHMOVE,PARM='POWER=4',REGION=2M //SYSUT1 DD DISP=OLD,UNIT=SYSALLDA,VOL=SER=nonsms //DD1 DD DISP=SHR,DSN=IBMUSER.UNLOAD INPUT VOLUME //DD2 DD DISP=OLD,UNIT=SYSALLDA,VOL=SER=nonsms //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* COPY DSNAME=IBMUSER.UNLOAD, X TO=3380=nonsms, X RENAME=IBMUSER.MYPDS, X CATLG ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
