Thank you the responses. I prefer a terse program for Linux because I have geographically diverse MVS systems sending large plain test files to a single zLinux system. From that zLinux system, we occasionally need to send the file to a 3rd party that can cope with terse files, anything else causes them grief. :-(
I would actually like to keep the file on zLinux as .gz file, then only create a terse file to send to the 3rd party. So, yes, the "my" mvs systems could send the file to zLinux in any compression form zLinux knows, that would be OK... I can update the JCL there. But, that still leaves creating the terse file to send to a 3rd party. I do have an MVS system "local" to the zLinux system, so maybe I'll write something to move the file up there, terse it and ftp it to the 3rd party from mvs instead of zLinux... Cheers On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 17:41, John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com>wrote: > BZIP2 is available for z/OS on the Tools @ Toys IBM page. > On Jul 29, 2011 3:58 PM, "Donald Russell" <russell....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Several MVS systems currently ftps put to zLinux some very large plain > text > > files.... Some are several GB in size. > > > > I would like to change the MVS process to terse the file before sending, > but > > as far as I've been able to find, an unterse is not available on Linux. I > > doubt that's true, I just don't know where to look. :-) > > > > These files are not PDS(E), or other things that linux has no concept of, > > they are just plain, flat files... (They are actually FBM text files, but > > when linux gets it, I know longer care about the "M" part, these things > will > > never be "printed". > > > > Can somebody suggest where I can get a trsmain equivalent that runs on > > Linux? > > > > Thank you > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
