in mainframe you can have 3 type of datasources --flat files --VSAM files --DB2/IMS
DB2 or IMS supprt the export utilities to copy the data into flat file which you can get through ftp/sftp VSAM file can be exported using IDCAMS utility flat files can be get using the ftp/sftp :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Raj K Singh http://www.rajkrrsingh.blogspot.com Mobile Tel: +91 (0)9899821370 On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Mohammad Tariq <donta...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Sandeep, > > You don't have to convert the data in order to copy it into the HDFS. But > you might have to think about the MR processing of these files because of > the format of these files. > > You could probably make use of Sqoop <http://sqoop.apache.org/>. > > I also came across DMX-H a few days ago while browsing. I don't know > anything about the licensing and how good it is. Just thought of sharing it > with you. You can visit their > page<http://www.syncsort.com/en/Data-Integration/Home>to see more. They also > provide a VM(includes CDH) to get started quickly. > > Warm Regards, > Tariq > cloudfront.blogspot.com > > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Sandeep Nemuri <nhsande...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi , >> >> "How to copy datasets from Mainframe to HDFS directly? I know that we >> can NDM files to Linux box and then we can use simple put command to copy >> data to HDFS. But, how to copy data directly from mainframe to HDFS? I >> have PS, PDS and VSAM datasets to copy to HDFS for analysis using >> MapReduce. >> >> Also, Do we need to convert data from EBCDIC to ASCII before copy? " >> >> -- >> --Regards >> Sandeep Nemuri >> > >
