Gil, I can't tell whether these are real questions or arguments. As arguments I don't know enough to respond to most of them, but I'll treat them as actual requests for information and then respond "I don't know" in some cases:
G> How do you get your 50 files to the desktop side? And right off the bat, I see I may have misled you. I have these REXX modules stored on my PC in plain-text files, usually named "<modulename>.mvsrex". So from the point of view of me trying to copy them to a new client's mainframe, they started on the desktop side. G> How many such sites lack a zip archiver on the desktop side? And again, I see I was unclear. (So many assumptions on my part.) For the last 10 years or so my work has been almost entirely remote. With many clients I have to spend the first week on-site just so they know I'm a real person, but when I'm talking about uploading my tools to the mainframe I mean directly from ~my~ PC. G> How many such sites lack jar on the z side? No idea. In the context of this thread I have no difficulty remembering that jar is some kind of compression scheme (isn't it?). But I don't think I've ever used it. G> How many such sites have a version of Rexx on the desktop side? I pause in befuddlement. Not many that I know of; I had to get my boss' permission to download a copy of Regina REXX in order to write him a handy-dandy tool once (it read great gulps of firewall logs to determine likely sources of virus infection). But how is the question relevant to the issue of transferring mainframe-REXX modules from the desktop to the mainframe? G> How do you deal with ASCII<->EBCDIC? How do you deal with <CR><LF>? IND$FILE handles those. Ah, but in case I've found yet another way to be unclear, let me do better: The multi-file-transfer scheme I was talking about is not a single file that contains all the files I want to transfer, concatenated together, with ways of handling filenames, EOF, EOL etc; it is a list of filenames, with special characters delimiting the filenames, the transfer methods for each and so on. So maybe each line has a lower-case 'a' to start, then a path and filename, then two hex 00s, followed by 'B' or 'T' (for binary or ASCII); the next three characters can be anything, but after that...and so on. If I use the emulator's method to create a three-file transfer definition, and then examine the file it creates, I can (sometimes) imitate that syntax and create a file of my own using (say) VBScript. G> Does IBM consider IND$FILE supported? I've always assumed so. I used to be able to initiate file transfers by typing the IND$FILE command manually at the READY prompt or at option 6, ignoring the emulator entirely; doesn't that mean it's supported in TSO? --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* -from _A Pilgrim's Regress_ by C S Lewis: John: Well, you would not assure me that it was anything real. Reason: Nor that it was not. John: But I must think it is one or the other. Reason: By my father's soul, you must NOT -- until you have some evidence. Can you not remain in doubt? John: I don't know that I have ever tried. Reason: You must learn to, if you are to come far with me.... */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2021 17:16 How do you get your 50 files to the desktop side? How many such sites lack a zip archiver on the desktop side? How many such sites lack jar on the z side? How many such sites have a version of Rexx on the desktop side? How do you deal with ASCII<->EBCDIC? How do you deal with <CR><LF>? Does IBM consider IND$FILE supported? --- On Sun, 14 Feb 2021 16:26:28 -0500, Bob Bridges wrote: >As a contractor I have to upload my REXX tools to a new client's >mainframe every so often, and I find FTP is unavailable for the purpose >maybe half the time. They all use different 3270 emulators, but of >course the emulators all use IND$FILE, and they all allow you to upload >one file at a time or to create a multi-file set. I've found that it's >not impossible to use their emulator to create a test upload of >multiple files (just two or three), and inspect the result to see how the >syntax works in that particular product. >Then I write a VBS or VBA program to create such a file naming not one >or two REXX modules but 50. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
