We have had a couple of people report that they have been successful in using Co:Z in a z/OS jobstep to launch the Windows SAS job and pipe it SMF data. If you are going to do this, it would be best to set up Co:Z for "non-tunneling" mode, so that your potentially huge file transfers will ride on a raw socket rather than being tunneled in SSH. This will reduce CPU and improve network throughput.
As far as using Java - IBM has recently published some work that we did for them in the JZOS alphaWorks project that you might want to look at. There is a took that allows you to map Cobol copy books or Assembler DSECTs into Java record-mapping code. You can run this code on any platform, so that might be one solution to making the process a little easier. It still seems like a aweful lot of work to me. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
