On Fri, 24 Mar 2017 21:53:45 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote: >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. > FTP from a DDNAME allocated from the output of a POSIX pipe the input to which is the output of your transformation utility. (Requires both UNIX and z/OS competency and whatever management authorization.)
Beware! I've noticed that FTP expects the DDNAME to be allocated to a file or data set and finds and respects the attributes of that data set, sometimes ignoring overriding allocation attributes. >On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 8:08 AM, John McKown wrote: >> >> ... 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). ... -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
