We do that (well the FOCUS "os bridge" is what is doing it but it is o/s sim under the covers). Mod 9's today, but probably mod 27's by like Monday since their stuff just ran outta space.
Just make sure you are doing "set shared on" on the volumes and define them as full pack (0 END) in the directory and r/o from VM. Marcy Cortes "This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation." -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lee Stewart Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 8:03 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: [IBMVM] CMS OS Sim reading LARGE z/OS flat files I have a customer who currently uses an FTP-like process to move a large amount of data from z/OS to VM regularly, where it's then put into a database on VM... From what we know so far, the data is written out to a giant flat file on z/OS, then transferred and imported into the database on VM. (It's not DB2, but so far not sure just what it is.) The flat file can be up to about 40K records, and each record can be up to 3K long... In talking about their hardware configs, while they are separate systems today, it occurred to us that we could cable the VM system to the z/OS DASD and read the file directly on VM -- thus eliminating the overhead and delay of sending it over IP, no matter how fast the connection. It would mean changing their process to write a single file to a single volume, as opposed to today where z/OS just writes it as a multi-volume dataset across whatever free space. That would probably take either a 3390-27 or maybe a -54... So.... Does anyone have any experience using the CMS OS simulation stuff to read giant z/OS files? I know a CMS formatted minidisk can only go up to 32K cylinders, but haven't found any mention of limits for the OS simulation stuff. (Keep in mind it's almost always easier to change the VM end of the process.) Thanks for any thoughts.... Lee -- Lee Stewart, Senior SE Sirius Computer Solutions Phone: (303) 798-2954 Fax: (720) 228-2321 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.siriuscom.com
