On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 07:12:08 -0500, John McKown wrote: >In addition, for true ZIP file output, remember that the Java "jar" command >actually reads and writes zip files. Unfortunately, it only supports z/OS >UNIX files, not legacy z/OS data sets. Whether this is a bother or not >depends on what the "far end" wants to do with the zip file contents.
Is having Java installed (and being comfortable with "jar" typical in z/OS installations? >For the truly advanced person, GIMZIP is a very powerful way to package up z/OS >legacy data sets (sequential, PDS, and VSAM) as well as UNIX resident files. > >http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/gimrfr40/11.7 > Its output is an EBCDIC XML file describing a collection of compressed (POSIX, not gzip) tar files each containing an EBCDIC XML control file and an IEBCOPY-unloaded image (RECFM=VBS with BDWs and RDWs but no block boundaries) of a PDS(E). If the original data were anything other than PDS(E)s, they will have been encoded with the GIMDTS utility (supplied) which format is extracted only by SMP/E APPLY. Portability? It all depends on whether the intended recipient has access to SMP/E and is authorized to perform an APPLY (APAR IO11698). (I might misunderstand. Have you used it otherwise?) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
