On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 10:05:16 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote: > >This is not correct, Paul. The data would be extracted using GIMUNZIP, >and AFAIK, they are not encoded with GIMDTS. > >>It all depends on whether the intended recipient has >>access to SMP/E and is authorized to perform an APPLY (APAR IO11698). > >Nope. It requires that the recipient be authorized to use GIMUNZIP. > I stand corrected on this; somewhat happily.
I archived a UNIX directory with GIMZIP and examined the product. It was strange_name.pax.Z file plus a couple control files. I extracted it successfully (but not usefully) on a non-IBM system. But it raises a lot of questions: o For file transfer to a foreign system, has this any advantage over the simpler direct use of pax. Pax from the command line also supports code page conversion which might be useful. o I didn't try a VSAM cluster (VSAM is black magic to me). If one archives a VSAM cluster with GIMZIP and extracts it with GIMUNZIP on a different system, is it immediately useful? o How do IBM and other vendors largely deliver PTFs nowadays? In SMPPTFIN format with inline elements, or in FROMNETWORK format? o Are there noways element types (UNIX?, VSAM?) which can be delivered only in SMPNTS format, never in SMPPTFIN format? o If I RECEIVE a SYSMOD containing a GIMZIPped UNIX directory, what goes in the GLOBAL zone? In what format? If I APPLY it, what goes in the target zone? If I ACCEPT it, what goes in the DLIB zone? o All these questions should be answered by RTFM. 22 months ago, I submitted an RCF concerning: Title: z/OS Packaging Rules Document Number: SC23-3695-10 Build Date: 05/22/03 10:45:55 ... concerning absence of rules for network delivery. I received an encouraging reply, "... This document does need to be updated and I have brought it to the attention of development, who agrees with your observation." So far, no change (but am I looking in the wrong place?) I work in a niche division of a large corporation. The corporate standard is that any software package, installation or patch, shall be delivered as a .zip package containing either a README.txt or a README.html file plus an unspecified number of payload files in unspecified format. Our division certainly lacks the leverage to effect a change in this. Subject to these constraints, and absent current information in SC23-3695-10, would customers prefer SYSMODS (FUNCTION and PTF) in format: o SMPNTS further wrapped in a pax (or other) envelope? o SMPNTS as many separate (EBCDIC) files? o A single SMPPTFIN in the aforementioned zip package? o Other (specify)? Thanks, gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN