If both systems are on the same physical computer, it might not be worth it. The time and cpu cycles it would take to compress and uncompress might take longer than transferring the un compressed file.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Donald Russell Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2019 6:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Using bpxbatch to compress an MVS dataset I have a batch process in zOS 2.1 (soon to be 2.3) that creates a large text file I want to FTP to a zLinux system. How can I use bpxbatch tar or compress (or ?) to create a smaller file I can ftp instead instead of the original file? I don’t want to use pkzip unless that’s the only choice. Terse is no good because Linux can’t unterse it. Is there a way to specify a DD name for the input and output files, similar to how FTP allows put/get //DD:<dd name> Part two... the text in the file is EBCDIC, but Linux wants ASCII. I don’t see an option to do the conversion. I’ll have to check tr, but maybe there’s a way to use more traditional Unix syntax like cat //dd:in | tr ... | tar -cv //dd:out Cheers, Don ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
