On Sat, 30 May 2009 10:07:28 -0500, Kirk Wolf <k...@dovetail.com> wrote:
>I'm not sure if this helps, but the z/OS pax command supports reading >archives from an MVS dataset. > Close, but not quite. SMP/E doesn't support SMPNTS resident in Classic data sets. Recent releases of SMP/E process relative files from the SMPNTS consecutively, discarding work files from SMPWKDIR as each relative file is loaded, somewhat relieving storage constraints that existed earlier. Wouldn't it be great if IEBCOPY could load from a Unix file, relieving SMP/E of the need to do the (rather simple) conversion to a RECFM=VBS Classic data set? And even better if that Unix file could be a pipe, so an unpacked copy of the unloaded relative file need never exist? (Hmmm. Would require a restructuring of the SMPNTS so compressed relative files would not reside in pax.Z archives, since pax can't extract to pipes.) Someone here once suggested that all local storage of unloaded relative files should be eliminated: it shouldn't be RECEIVE FROMNETWORK, but APPLY FROMNETWORK, accessing "the Great SMPPTS in the Sky." But I know of no vendor that avoids the two step process, separating transfer from install. Overlapping them vastly complicates recovery from network failures. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
