Hi Donald The URL in my original response to you appears to have been garbled by some sort of 'protection' thingy. I don't know how to work around that, but here's an attempt: h t t p : / / g r o u p s . y a h o o . c o m / g r o u p / h e r c u l e s - 3 9 0 just remove the spaces to get the correct link back.
Regards Sean On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 at 11:18, David Spiegel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Seann, > In which Group would I find TERSE.ZIP? > > Thanks and regards, > David > > On 2019-07-01 06:05, Sean Gleann wrote: > > Donald: From your initial query... "Terse is no good because Linux can’t > > unterse it." > > FWIW there is a TERSE application available from the old Hercules days > that > > includes implementations for Windows, DOS, MAC and Linux. > > I tried it out on windows and found it worked tolerably well for handling > > TERSEd data moving in both directions, but I can't speak for the Linux > > implementation. > > If you can login to yahoo groups > https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgroups.yahoo.com%2Fgroup%2Fhercules-390&data=02%7C01%7C%7C90d8eaf26b1547e8f6d908d6fe0bd459%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636975724126831910&sdata=tYjKfYK%2FmO7rXFzgo8oU2oCX5dUF%2FHMQmukNZl90lKY%3D&reserved=0 > > and go to 'files', you should be able to find the TERSE.ZIP distribution > > file. > > > > Regards > > Sean. > > > > > > > > On Sun, 30 Jun 2019 at 22:24, Lizette Koehler <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >> If this is a batch process to FTP to another platform, and it can handle > >> tar or jar etc... > >> > >> Then you can certainly do that. > >> > >> If the other platform can use TRSMAIN output, that is part of z/OS > >> > >> So for your issue, you just need a first step to send the file to USS > and > >> pax or tar it. > >> > >> Then ftp to the other platform. Once received there - you should be > able > >> to reverse the process > >> > >> > >> There is some interesting information here > >> > >> > https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww-01.ibm.com%2Fsupport%2Fdocview.wss%3Fuid%3Disg1OA52222&data=02%7C01%7C%7C90d8eaf26b1547e8f6d908d6fe0bd459%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636975724126831910&sdata=HOwbwkzsXj%2BDlFJhl6yegpytyIiHHLa90AUmwmBtD2Y%3D&reserved=0 > >> > >> > >> > https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ibm.com%2Fsupport%2Fknowledgecenter%2Fen%2FSSLTBW_2.3.0%2Fcom.ibm.zos.v2r3.bpxa500%2Fmvsds.htm&data=02%7C01%7C%7C90d8eaf26b1547e8f6d908d6fe0bd459%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636975724126831910&sdata=eR61kd6UsyJuUucHmVjO6xVWOZH046s3ICvIpAmIQko%3D&reserved=0 > >> > >> > >> I have not done this myself, but I know it should be possible to do. > >> > >> Lizette > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>> -----Original Message----- > >>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On > >> Behalf Of > >>> Donald Russell > >>> Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2019 8:58 AM > >>> 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 > >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
