Liuzzo, Joseph wrote:
I lurk on the listserv to improve my plumbing skills.
Given the complexity of what I've seen discussed here, I'm hoping one of
the experts can respond to me.
We use IBM Personal Communications as our terminal emulator. We often
have PC (or LAN server) files that we'd like to process on VM, but
oftentimes the files are huge and we do not need all the data.
This is not amongst your proposed solutions, but.... I am developing a
version of Pipelines using the Python programming language. It will run
on any Python platform (including PCs). Perhaps you could use my version
to preprocess the data (ore even 'work' the data) on the PC, then send
just the relevant part to the mainframe.
If you think this might (or might not) help, let me know. You could be a
"beta tester" for this evolving product.
Currently we use the 'upload' feature to bring the file to the mainframe
and then can use Pipelines to 'work' the data. But the upload time is
long AND quite often there isn't enough space on our minidisks. (Yes,
we can get temp space, etc.).
I'm looking to see if either one of two possibilities exist:
1) is there a <(un)documented> driver which can hook into the IND$FILE
flow of information so that a PIPELINE can intercept the data,
manipulate it and stream its output to a VM file using ">" ?
OR (although this might not be the proper audience for this
alternative...)
2) is there a way to redirect the IND$File action on VM to create not a
CMS file, but a SPOOL file, because spool space is more readily
available for large files. Once there, a RDR driver would allow me to
process the spool file, w/o needing the whole file on my VM ID.
Thanks,
Joe
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