Hi Seann, In which Group would I find TERSE.ZIP? Thanks and regards, David
On 2019-07-01 06:05, Sean Gleann wrote: > Donald: From your initial query... "Terse is no good because Linux can’t > unterse it." > FWIW there is a TERSE application available from the old Hercules days that > includes implementations for Windows, DOS, MAC and Linux. > I tried it out on windows and found it worked tolerably well for handling > TERSEd data moving in both directions, but I can't speak for the Linux > implementation. > If you can login to yahoo groups > https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgroups.yahoo.com%2Fgroup%2Fhercules-390&data=02%7C01%7C%7C90d8eaf26b1547e8f6d908d6fe0bd459%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636975724126831910&sdata=tYjKfYK%2FmO7rXFzgo8oU2oCX5dUF%2FHMQmukNZl90lKY%3D&reserved=0 > and go to 'files', you should be able to find the TERSE.ZIP distribution > file. > > Regards > Sean. > > > > On Sun, 30 Jun 2019 at 22:24, Lizette Koehler <stars...@mindspring.com> > wrote: > >> If this is a batch process to FTP to another platform, and it can handle >> tar or jar etc... >> >> Then you can certainly do that. >> >> If the other platform can use TRSMAIN output, that is part of z/OS >> >> So for your issue, you just need a first step to send the file to USS and >> pax or tar it. >> >> Then ftp to the other platform. Once received there - you should be able >> to reverse the process >> >> >> There is some interesting information here >> >> https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww-01.ibm.com%2Fsupport%2Fdocview.wss%3Fuid%3Disg1OA52222&data=02%7C01%7C%7C90d8eaf26b1547e8f6d908d6fe0bd459%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636975724126831910&sdata=HOwbwkzsXj%2BDlFJhl6yegpytyIiHHLa90AUmwmBtD2Y%3D&reserved=0 >> >> >> https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ibm.com%2Fsupport%2Fknowledgecenter%2Fen%2FSSLTBW_2.3.0%2Fcom.ibm.zos.v2r3.bpxa500%2Fmvsds.htm&data=02%7C01%7C%7C90d8eaf26b1547e8f6d908d6fe0bd459%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636975724126831910&sdata=eR61kd6UsyJuUucHmVjO6xVWOZH046s3ICvIpAmIQko%3D&reserved=0 >> >> >> I have not done this myself, but I know it should be possible to do. >> >> Lizette >> >> >> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On >> Behalf Of >>> Donald Russell >>> Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2019 8:58 AM >>> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >>> Subject: Using bpxbatch to compress an MVS dataset >>> >>> I have a batch process in zOS 2.1 (soon to be 2.3) that creates a large >> text >>> file I want to FTP to a zLinux system. >>> >>> How can I use bpxbatch tar or compress (or ?) to create a smaller file I >> can >>> ftp instead instead of the original file? I don’t want to use pkzip >> unless >>> that’s the only choice. Terse is no good because Linux can’t unterse it. >>> >>> Is there a way to specify a DD name for the input and output files, >> similar >>> to how FTP allows put/get //DD:<dd name> >>> >>> Part two... the text in the file is EBCDIC, but Linux wants ASCII. I >> don’t >>> see an option to do the conversion. >>> >>> I’ll have to check tr, but maybe there’s a way to use more traditional >> Unix >>> syntax like >>> >>> cat //dd:in | tr ... | tar -cv //dd:out >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Don >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send >> email to >>> lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > . > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
