On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 15:15:21 -0500, John McKown wrote:
>
>... So, I was thinking that it might be nice to
>have a FTP server command which would set up a "global" data transformation
>program as in intermediary. That is, the client (on Windows) would do
>something like:
>
>quote outxform somepgm
>get vsam.dataset
>
>And what the FTP server would do is invoke "somepgm" with a parameter of
>"vsam.dataset". The "somepgm" would allocate & open the given data set. It
>would then read the data; transform it; then return the transformed
>record(s) ...
>
I wonder about some combination of ssh/sftp/Co:Z. I'm imagining:
ssh z-OS "somepgm -options vsam.dataset" >local.vsam.dataset.
No ssh? How about PuTTY or Cygwin? Third party software prohibited?
They just don't want you to do your job, do they?
>Or maybe something similar to how ftp can do an SQL query, but more generic:
>https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.halu001/db2sqlquerysubmitftps.htm
-- gil
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