It looks like you are using the IBM Tools and Toys port of InfoZip?

Just a guess, but it was built by IBM without the C library _LARGE_FILES
feature macro.

Kirk Wolf
Dovetailed Technologies

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Vikesh Bhoola <vbho...@sars.gov.za> wrote:

> Hi there listers,
> I've searched the archives of previous posts on the subject in the hope
> someone has experienced the same problem.
> However I only managed few statements that perhaps indicate that INFOZIP
> has a 2Gb limit.
>
> The file we need to zip actually has:     15,694,524,498 Bytes
> The INFOZIP ZIP JCL completes with RC=0 and the following info :
>
> Translating to ASCII...
>
>  adding: xxxx/yy/zzz/ONCEOFF1.A000001 (in=2821109409) (out=1028850252)
> (deflate
> total bytes=2,821,109,409  compressed=1,028,850,252 -> 64% savings
>
>
> The INFOZIP job doesn't give any error message indicating that it
> couldn't manage zipping the 14.6Gb file.
>
> 1. Is it correct that INFOZIP has a 2Gb limit which prevents this.
> Should the job not have given an error message? Does anyone have a
> work-around for the 2Gb limit in INFOZIP ?
>
> 2. Is there anyway to avoid the file xxx.yy.zzz.ONCEOFF1.A000001 being
> stored in the ZIP file as xxxx/yy/zzz/ONCEOFF1.A000001
>
> We are running z/OS 1.9 &
> Copyright (C) 1990-1999 Info-ZIP
>  Type 'zip "-L"' for software license.
>  Zip 2.3 (November 29th 1999).
>
> Your advice on the above issues is most appreciated.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Vikesh
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