Re: emulating a z/OS DDNAME dataset concatenation in Linux

2009-11-02 Thread David Boyes
On Nov 2, 2009, at 8:44 AM, Rob van der Heij rvdh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 5:02 AM, BISHOP, Peter peter.bis...@hp.com wrote: But in a lot of cases you can make the program use stdin and take the data from the pipe. Or use a named pipe pointing to the necessary cat

Re: emulating a z/OS DDNAME dataset concatenation in Linux

2009-11-02 Thread John Summerfield
Rob van der Heij wrote: On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 5:02 AM, BISHOP, Peter peter.bis...@hp.com wrote: To John M - yes, I was thinking in z/OS terms, where a single open of the DDNAME is sufficient for all the datasets in that DDNAME. To David, Ed and John S - the annoying thing about pipes here

Re: emulating a z/OS DDNAME dataset concatenation in Linux

2009-11-02 Thread Eddie Chen
to point to the second dataset name. i.eMYDSN=/opt/data/dataset.name.one then change it to two From: John Summerfield deb...@herakles.homelinux.org To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 11/02/2009 11:19 AM Subject:Re: emulating a z/OS DDNAME dataset concatenation

Re: emulating a z/OS DDNAME dataset concatenation in Linux

2009-11-02 Thread Bishop, Peter
@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: emulating a z/OS DDNAME dataset concatenation in Linux Rob van der Heij wrote: On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 5:02 AM, BISHOP, Peter peter.bis...@hp.com wrote: To John M - yes, I was thinking in z/OS terms, where a single open of the DDNAME is sufficient for all the datasets

Re: emulating a z/OS DDNAME dataset concatenation in Linux

2009-11-02 Thread Bishop, Peter
Of Eddie Chen Sent: Tuesday, 3 November 2009 3:57 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: emulating a z/OS DDNAME dataset concatenation in Linux I don't know the program/applications is being used or you are running. what you can do in use the DDNAME as an environmental variable that points

Re: emulating a z/OS DDNAME dataset concatenation in Linux

2009-11-02 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of John Summerfield Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 10:18 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: emulating a z/OS DDNAME dataset concatenation in Linux snip snip If there's some useful

Re: emulating a z/OS DDNAME dataset concatenation in Linux

2009-11-02 Thread Eddie Chen
@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 11/02/2009 05:11 PM Subject:Re: emulating a z/OS DDNAME dataset concatenation in Linux Sent by:Linux on 390 Port LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of John Summerfield Sent

Re: emulating a z/OS DDNAME dataset concatenation in Linux

2009-11-01 Thread BISHOP, Peter
| +61 2 9012 6620 fax | peter.bis...@hp.com 36-46 George St | Burwood | NSW 2134 Australia -Original Message- From: BISHOP, Peter Sent: Friday, 2 October 2009 1:09 PM To: 'linux-390@vm.marist.edu' Subject: emulating a z/OS DDNAME dataset concatenation in Linux Hi, I've searched around

Re: emulating a z/OS DDNAME dataset concatenation in Linux

2009-11-01 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 5:02 AM, BISHOP, Peter peter.bis...@hp.com wrote: To John M - yes, I was thinking in z/OS terms, where a single open of the DDNAME is sufficient for all the datasets in that DDNAME. To David, Ed and John S - the annoying thing about pipes here is that they incur

Re: emulating a z/OS DDNAME dataset concatenation in Linux

2009-10-06 Thread John Summerfield
John McKown wrote: I'm a z/OS (and back to OS/VS1) type person. I don't know of any way to I remember PCP, MFT and MVT[-) do this as I think you want to. What I assume is that you basically want to do one open() type function, and have the run time give you the records from the file(s) in

Re: emulating a z/OS DDNAME dataset concatenation in Linux

2009-10-02 Thread John McKown
I'm a z/OS (and back to OS/VS1) type person. I don't know of any way to do this as I think you want to. What I assume is that you basically want to do one open() type function, and have the run time give you the records from the file(s) in the concatenation without any more work on your part anod

Re: emulating a z/OS DDNAME dataset concatenation in Linux

2009-10-02 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
On Thursday 01 October 2009 23:08, BISHOP, Peter wrote: I've searched around and drawn a blank. What I'm wondering is whether there is a method in Linux that emulates a z/OS DDNAME's facility of allowing multiple datasets to be concatenated and effectively treated as one file. I looked at

Re: emulating a z/OS DDNAME dataset concatenation in Linux

2009-10-02 Thread David Boyes
On 10/1/09 11:08 PM, BISHOP, Peter peter.bis...@hp.com wrote: I've searched around and drawn a blank. What I'm wondering is whether there is a method in Linux that emulates a z/OS DDNAME's facility of allowing multiple datasets to be concatenated and effectively treated as one file. Not

emulating a z/OS DDNAME dataset concatenation in Linux

2009-10-01 Thread BISHOP, Peter
Hi, I've searched around and drawn a blank. What I'm wondering is whether there is a method in Linux that emulates a z/OS DDNAME's facility of allowing multiple datasets to be concatenated and effectively treated as one file. I looked at symbolic links, the cat command, variants of the mount