Re: DDR'ing 3390 DASD To Remote Location

[Jim Bohnsack]

I'm surprised that your posting about being able to backup/restore DCSS/NSS files to disk was not jumped on by a lot of people.  I'd love to have that.  Does it/can it restore the original creation DCSS/NSS date?  The date problem and the fact that IBM's DCSSBKUP only works with DCSS's, not NSS's, is a big drawback. This is especially significant, given my new, remote, connection to Cornell.  I'm semi-retired and working from my house in Plano, TX.  I'd like to be able to minimize the calls to operations to mount a tape.  If you want to contact me off-line, I'm [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Jim Dave Jones wrote: Hi, Jiri. This is way cool, many thanks for doing the work and sharing it. I think it's going to make life a bit easier for some folks. Some suggestions: 1) There seems to be an undocumented option in at least the FTPGET stage -- -DVDEOF. Of course, this might have meaning only in the case of doing a DVD transfer. 2) split the help text for the FTPGET and FTPPUT stages into separate help files. 3) convert the HELP file from simple text to the standard CMS HELPFILE format. If you'd like, I can help you with that. As far as SPXTAPE being upgraded to support files instead of being tape only, we've got a handy little utility here that will backup and restore all types of DCSS/NSS/UR/etc spool files to/from CMS files, with the only exceptions being DUMP and TRACE files. For UR spool files (RDR,PRT,PUN) it collects all such files from a given user into one CMS file, making moving and restoring them easier. It can also process individual rdr/prt/pun files from the collection as well. If there is any interest in such a thing, let me know, and I'll document it a bit better and put it up on one the the popular VM download web sites. Again, thanks a lot, Jiri. Jiri Stehlik wrote: A while ago there was a thread here about the ability to DDR DASD to remote location. Well there is an answer! I modified DDR so it can communicate with CMS PIPES (DDR can now be a pipe stage). The modules can be downloaded from here: http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/descript.cgi?DRPC The FTPPUT and FTPGET PIPE stages were also included and documented at the above address. Notice that this project is still a work in progress, therefore feedback is welcomed! -George -- Jim Bohnsack Cornell University (972) 596-6377 home/office (972) 342-5823 cell [EMAIL PROTECTED]