I am not going to respond about the ISPF PACK option, that has been answered by posts already.
I would like to add some information about the use of PIPEs in JCL and otherwise. #1 There is a product that I think it can still be ordered but not really supported anymore and I am not sure of the name, but one of it's features was that it provided a TSO PIPE command. I think it was part of the product, "BatchPipes for OS/390 Version 2 Release 1, the main function was to provide the capability of multiple jobs running on different LPARs to provide data to another job, via a "PIPE", but it also provided a TSO command, "PIPE" that provided PIPE functions, in the same style as what is built into NETVIEW. An example: PIPE > DDNAME=XYZ | CHANGE /abc/cba/ | > DDNAME=ZYX It is not like UNIX PIPEs, but somewhat the same functionality. #2. I went to www.ibm.com and did a search on "mvs batchpipes" and among the hits, was this article: "Two Kinds of PIPEs" https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/MartinPacker/entry/two_kinds_of_pipes5?lang=en -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, December 29, 2014 12:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Dataset PACK profile On Mon, 29 Dec 2014 08:11:37 -0700, Lizette Koehler wrote: >You can do internet searches on ISPF PACK FORMAT and find many entries on it. >You can go to www.ibm.com and search on ISPF PACK and get a lot of >information > >You can go to ISPF and in the EDIT panel press PF1 (HELP) and find information >on it. > If it's well enough documented one might write a filter to support othe applications. Wouldn't it be great if JCL DD supported POSIX pipes or BatchPipes to this end? Does the latter already exist, perhaps via SUBSYS=? >As others have said, only ISPF can read ISPF PACK format datasets. > Compression by the controller or virtual storage subsystem might be a better alternative, if available. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
