On 4 Feb 2009 18:35:47 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > >> Good question. I know that John is an NFS user (at least >> Linux server; z/OS client). I believe that SMF data are >> RECFM=VBS. I know that if a VBS file is overridden to >> RECFM=U it can be reconstructed from the RDWs (I've done >> it in Rexx with an IEBCOPY-unloaded library). But is >> there any way to trick the z/OS NFS server into presenting >> an SMF log to the client as such a byte stream? > >I didn't try NFS. My Linux box is down for a while. It (not I) am accused >of streaming data at 7Mbs over our external Internet connection, causing >much weeping and wailing. I have no idea what could have done this. I >didn't do anything. The LAN people said it was "7Mbs encrypted downloads >from Fedora". Whatever that really means.
Since Fedora is the general public Linux distribution for Red Hat my guess is that it is some kind of update. Red Hat may encrypt them. > >> >> The alternative is to override to RECFM=U,FILEDATA=BINARY >> in JCL and IEBGENER to the Linux NFS server. >> >> Does Java on z/OS understand RECFM=VBS legacy data sets? > >Not directly. But I do an FTP with QUOTE SITE RDW or Co:Z "fromdsn" with >standard IBM RDWs. I have written Java code which can read this by >decoding the RDWs in the code. It's ugly code (IMO), but not too >difficult. > >> >> What's the relative cost of CPU cycles on z/OS vs. desktop? >> >> -- gil > >about 200 zillion to one <grin>. My desktop is basically "free" due to its >age. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
