On Mon, 6 Oct 2014 18:42:47 -0700, Lizette Koehler wrote:
>How will you be using the data? LUW, Oracle, other?
>Do you use NFS or other accesses?
>
>You can offload the VSAM with REPRO but then the receiving system would need
>to be able to read the data.
>
>If you could explain the process you will be using the VSAM data in, it will
>help.
>
>Also, what version of z/OS will it be accessed from?
>
"VSAM" covers a variety of things. There's KSDS, ESDS, Linear, ...
Linear is perhaps the simplest. And I understand that zFS is a special
case of Linear. But the zFS format is highly confidential; understanding
it requires either money and an NDA or reverse engineering and likely
violation of an EULA.
A couple experiments. With FTP:
ftp> get GLOBAL.CSI
local: GLOBAL.CSI remote: GLOBAL.CSI
229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||34263|)
550 VSAM data set ...GLOBAL.CSI cannot be processed.
ftp> exit
With NFS:
user@HOST: wc GLOBAL.CSI
3316 6929 83475 GLOBAL.CSI
user@HOST: wc GLOBAL.CSI.INDEX
3 29 2554 GLOBAL.CSI.INDEX
user@HOST: wc GLOBAL.CSI.DATA
0 0 0 GLOBAL.CSI.DATA
... I have no idea what it all means.
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