On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 17:49:02 +0000, Jerry Whitteridge wrote: >Look into using jar to compress the file for you if you have java on the >mainframe. As far as I can see a jar file is a variant of a zip file. > So, spend CPU time to un-EDC it (and you need someplace to put it); CPU time to zip it with jar (and you need a place to put that, unless named pipes work for you, and I've found jar to be expensive); FTP the uncompressed then recompressed file (BTW, are the data suitable for jar's stream protocol?) Then the recipient can reverse the process.
AMATERSE is probably faster and probably compresses better than Deflate. But it won't deal with named pipes (oughta be an RFE.) Then delete whatever temporary artifacts were created. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
