How about doing a portion of the dataset, FTP the result, delete the intermediate file. Repeat for each segment. I. E. last 1 or 2 digits of an account number, etc. Using the high order digits could lead to some groups being pretty large, I.E. SS#s. Or X number of records. 2nd run skip X, process X. 3rd run Skip 2X, process X, etc.
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 8:08 AM, John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 6:41 AM, Steve Smith <sasd...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I am over my self-imposed daily limit on IBM-MAIN replies and it's not even >> 08:00 yet. However, I see no reason to "enhance" ftp. In fact, I think >> the capability to convert to/from ASCII is misguided (as it's used by >> mistake as often as on purpose - see above). >> >> Do whatever it takes to create the actual data set you want to transmit, >> *then* invoke ftp to transmit it. >> > > As the OP for this thread, I would generally concur with the above. The > problem, at present, is that the files of which I am speaking are multi-GiB > data sets and finding more DASD space can be problematic. We can't get more > DASD basically because we are doing the ftp's to move data off of z/OS in > order to "get off the obsolete mainframe and on to current cloud based > systems" (managements' words, not mine). We could do BINARY ftps, but that > would require more money to write a Windows program to read the data in > "mainframe" format and write it out in "Windows" format. We do have > Microfocus COBOL. Interestingly(?), it can read the "mainframe encoded" > data (EBCDIC, z series integers & packed decimal) just fine. Unfortunately, > unless I'm missing something, there is not any option to read in "mainframe > encoded" mode but write out in "Windows encoded" mode. Of course, being a > despised mainframe sysprog, I'm not allowed access to the PC environment > where all this is going on. > > > >> >> -- >> sas >> >> > > -- > "Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is > ancient. It's called 'rain'." -- Michael McClary, in alt.fusion > > Maranatha! <>< > John McKown > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
