No, I am not... Paul Gilmartin wrote the following in this thread... Why not? I have successfully ftp'ed raw (binary) SMF data, including the RDWs from z/OS to Linux. I can then read the file using Java, decoding the RDWs. UNIX itself does not care what data is being written to a file. It is just a byte stream. Of course, if the creating program itself does not have some way to delimit an end-of-record, then it __might__ not be possible to reliably read the data. E.g. undefined records which don't have an RDW, nor an end-of-record indicator (like program objects).
Regards Herbie -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: 29 Januarie 2008 01:50 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Keep only the tail of the dataset On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:51:47 -0000, Van Dalsen, Herbie wrote: >Hang on, I must be missing something... > >This is my output from the tail command in OMVS in tso, which I am sure can be used in BPXbatch. So If you mount your dataset in OMVS / USS as /var/tailin OMVS.TAILIN and a second one as /var/tailout OMVS.TAILOUT(empty) and issue the command tail /var/tailin > /var/tailout, won't you get the best results ? No messing around with other unix systems etc and code that someone needs to rewrite in 2 year's time? > You're the first person who has mentioned "other unix systems"; I believe the rest of us had assumed from the beginning z/OS Unix System Services. This still leaves unanswered my concerns about binary data in RECFM=V(B) and John M.'s about short generations. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Elavon Financial Services Limited Registered in Ireland: Number 418442 Registered Office: Block E, 1st Floor, Cherrywood Business Park, Loughlinstown, Co. Dublin, Ireland Directors: Robert Abele (USA), John Collins, Terrance Dolan (USA), Pamela Joseph (USA), Declan Lynch, John McNally, Malcolm Towlson Elavon Financial Services Limited, trading as Elavon, is regulated by the Financial Regulator ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
