I do the same. XMIT rules. :-)
It can be uploaded/downloaded using IND$FILE as well as ftp. It can be
viewed and unpacked on PC side (I don't know a tool for update). Finally
XMIT can contain any dataset you want. Especially XMIT can contain PDS
FB 80, but the members can be also XMIT files containing VB 1300,
RECFM=U or whatever.
Note: VSAM files have to be somehow packaged to non-VSAM. This is
another step. It can be ADRDSSU which pack VSAM, AIX, PATH, whatever.
Result is PS RECFM=U, which can be packed to XMIT.
Note: the "main" PDS can contain the content you want and some
installation scripts/jobs.
Actually I use it for course materials - single XMIT file, TSO RECEIVE,
then run a RECEIVE job from "main" PDS, then run few jobs and voila - 12
student + instructor already have their datasets.
Side comment for zip/jar - that involves Unix System Services. Since we
expect ftp can be unavailable, we also may expect OMVS segment problems
in some shops. It happens. That's why it is better to use the most
common and obviously available tools.
--
Radoslaw Skorupka
(looking for new job)
Lodz, Poland
W dniu 15.02.2021 o 01:09, Wayne Bickerdike pisze:
I use XMIT and download/upload using binary transfer. IND$FILE supports
binary. Then a TSO RECEIVE.
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 9:16 AM Paul Gilmartin <
[email protected]> wrote:
On Sun, 14 Feb 2021 16:26:28 -0500, Bob Bridges wrote:
As a contractor I have to upload my REXX tools to a new client's mainframe
every so often, and I find FTP is unavailable for the purpose maybe half
the
time. They all use different 3270 emulators, but of course the emulators
all use IND$FILE, and they all allow you to upload one file at a time or
to
create a multi-file set. I've found that it's not impossible to use their
emulator to create a test upload of multiple files (just two or three),
and
inspect the result to see how the syntax works in that particular product.
Then I write a VBS or VBA program to create such a file naming not one or
two REXX modules but 50.
How do you get your 50 files to the desktop side?
How many such sites lack a zip archiver on the desktop side?
How many such sites lack jar on the z side?
How many such sites have a version of Rexx on the desktop side?
How do you deal with ASCII<->EBCDIC?
How do you deal with <CR><LF>?
Does IBM consider IND$FILE supported?
-- gil
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