Thanks Steven, What is happening is that files on Zos are being zipped and shipped to a Solaris platform as a data feed. Zos PKZIP has an option to generate a gzip format compressed file. So we have done that for many years - worked fine till recently.
It appears that when Zos PKZIP encounters a file > 4 GB changes format to ZIP64 - (should have abended instead of doing that without letting folk know). Solaris gzip has been failing). I'll try the info-ziplink you have suggested. Thanks for you help. Ric Techow Performance Analyst Cost Value Engineering Group Telstra Account | Communications, Media and Entertainment Group HP Enterprise Services Mob 1: +61 415 637 097 Mob 2: +61 402 815 984 E-mail:rtec...@hp.com 4, Wesley Court East Burwood VIC 3151 -----Original Message----- From: Steven M. Schweda [mailto:s...@antinode.info] Sent: Friday, 27 July 2012 3:19 PM To: BUG-GZIP@gnu.org Cc: Techow, Ric Subject: Re: ETL for Flexcab Sample Requests failed with file size error Exactly what you're doing is not entirely clear to me, but ... > [...] Should gzip be able to handle files > produced by PKZIP in ZIP64 format as referred to below? Why are you using gzip to handle archives created by PKZIP? I thought that PKZIP worked with ZIP archives, and that gzip's ZIP-archive capabilities were quite limited. There are programs which were designed to deal with ZIP archives, and they have been used on z/OS: http://www.info-zip.org/ I'm not a z/OS user, so I know nothing, but there is at least one in the Info-ZIP group, so you may be able to get some help if you have problems building or using the Info-ZIP Zip and UnZip programs on z/OS. > Also need to have SOLARIS support ensure their 'GZIP' understands the > ZIP64 file format. It's not my program, so I know nothing, but I would not bet that gzip on any system type can do this. The Info-ZIP programs definitely _can_ handle large-file ZIP archives on Solaris (although a version number would be an interesting datum when describing any OS). HP-UX, Tru64, and VMS, too, for that matter. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Steven M. Schweda sms@antinode-info 382 South Warwick Street (+1) 651-699-9818 Saint Paul MN 55105-2547
