Yes, OMVS is part of z/OS, but I m sure that by "to OMVS" he means "to a file in an OMVS file system".
You should be able to receive from an XMIT file in batch TSO without a prompt. AFAIK you can only receive from SPOOL in foreground. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Monday, December 9, 2019 1:08 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Interchange best practice? (was: GIT ... length issue) On Mon, 9 Dec 2019 05:44:08 -0600, Lionel B Dyck wrote: >If you are trying to ftp the rocket git distribution then you should be >ftp'ing it to OMVS and not to z/OS datasets. If you are trying to work with >the zigi (z/OS ISPF Git Interface) then again, ftp to OMVS files and use the >install.sh script to get the files to z/OS for use. > "... to z/OS ..."? Isn't OMVS already just part of z/OS? What technique requires the least error-prone human interaction. I believe the package should be a single file, transferred to z/OS as *binary*. o cksum is your friend. Is a checksum supplied with the package. o CBTTAPE.org has some practices worth assimilating. o The package might be a pax archive, extractable with "pax -r ..." o Or a .zip, extractable with "jar -x ..." Is jar generally available on z/OS systems without optional installation? o PDS[E]s can be TRANSMIT unloaded within the pax/zip. Cf. CBTTAPE.org. RECEIVE has an INDD option which can accept allocated OMVS files. RECEIVE runs only under TSO, and getting to TSO from OMVS is a tedious extra step. o It's a shame that: - RECEIVE can't run outside TSO. JCL EXEC or Rexx ADDRESS LINKMVS would be great. - RECEIVE requires reply to a prompt. - IEBCOPY doesn't support OMVS files as PDSU. SMP/E does an extra conversion step to make that work. - AMATERSE doesn't support OMVS files as archive SYSUT1. I can cheat this, but support would be lacking. - OMVS directories are not supported as STEPLIB catenands. - OMVS directories are not supported as SYSEXEC catenands. o Accommodating site naming standards can be a PITA. o What about the instructions? An ASCII README file outside the archive? o SMP/E? Any suggestions? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
