On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 07:42:50 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 07:12:08 -0500, John McKown wrote: > >>For the truly advanced person, GIMZIP is a very powerful way to package up >>z/OS >>legacy data sets (sequential, PDS, and VSAM) as well as UNIX resident files. >> >>http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/gimrfr40/11.7 >> >If the original data were anything >other than PDS(E)s, they will have been encoded with the GIMDTS >utility (supplied) which format is extracted only by SMP/E APPLY.
This is not correct, Paul. The data would be extracted using GIMUNZIP, and AFAIK, they are not encoded with GIMDTS. > >It all depends on whether the intended recipient has >access to SMP/E and is authorized to perform an APPLY (APAR IO11698). Nope. It requires that the recipient be authorized to use GIMUNZIP. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
