On Tue, 9 Dec 2014 16:29:49 -0500, Kurt Quackenbush wrote: >> ... I believe (I may be wrong) that RECEIVE FROMNTS still >> stages SMPPTFIN to Classic data sets. > >RECEIVE FROMNTS unpaxes the archives into temporary UNIX files, and then >does indeed read the MCS directly from those UNIX files. No data sets >are involved. > In fact, I was thinking it might even be possible to bypass the "temporary UNIX files" and pipe directly from "pax -r" to SMPPTFIN. I was pleasantly mildly surprised to discover the following works on a GIMZIP archive:
pax -rvE -s '!\./SMPPTFIN!/dev/fd/1!' */SMPPTFIN <*.SMPMCS.pax.Z 2>foo | dd cbs=80 conv=unblock | less So pax might extract to the input of a pipe, and RECEIVE could allocate SMPPTFIN to the output of that pipe. Blessedly, pax appears to log and report errors on stderr rather than stdout. (John M. would appreciate my hackisness.) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN