>see Romney's RXFTP at the VM download site.
I searched the VM Download page, the VM Developers pages (Romney doesn't have
one, and many are rather out of date), and google.
Other than OOREXX mentions, the only reference to RXFTP was on the IBMVM list
by Rich Greenberg on Thu, 10 Jun 1999 20:03:01 PDT:
> A better way is Romney's RXFTP from the IBM download pages.
But there's no RXFTP on the IBM VM Download page. The only "FTP" hit on that
page is in the PIPEDDR abstract.
The only hit on the Pipelines RTL page is to Steve Hayes' FTP client.
Could John and Rich have meant Romney White's VMFTP program, located on Fran
Hensler's excellent Slippery Rock University FTP site with the most recent
updates as of 2009-03-13 at:
http://zvm.sru.edu/~DOWNLOAD/
I'm a big fan of VMFTP. Or is there some other z/VM related RXFTP package that
came and possibly went, and which even google can't find? (Is google missing
something even possible!??) ;-)
Mike Walter
Aon Corporation
The opinions expressed herein are mine alone, not my employer's.
-----Original Message-----
From: CMSTSO Pipelines Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of John P. Hartmann
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 6:28 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: FTP user exit, ultimately a PIPE stage?
There is Steve Hayes ftp driver at the pipelines home page. And for
non-pipe solution, see Romney's RXFTP at the VM download site.
On 25 August 2011 18:10, Larson, John E. <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am getting lost in Google-land, and seem to keep hitting dead ends.
>
> Something that I've wanted to do for a really long time but just assumed
> wasn't possible.
>
> Is it even possible...to write an FTP user exit that interfaces with the
> entire retrieval mechanism?
>
> Ultimately, I'd wish to have a PIPE stage that can filter my FTP GET of a
> 3000+ cylinder MVS dataset to a VM disk.
> I've always wondered why I have to find a VM disk large enough to complete
> the FTP GET, so that I can then turn around and "PIPE < FTP FILE | many
> filters | > much less data..."
>
> What would be the first step in even trying to attempt this? An FTP user
> exit? A socket program that does the LOGIN and entire FTP itself (rewriting
> FTP)??
>
> Or is this just too complex to consider?
>
> The larger the MVS dataset (multi-volume), the more awkward current methods
> are, i.e., I use FILEAID to chop the MVS dataset into 5-10 more manageable
> datasets (each less than 3000 cylinders).
> Then I can FTP GET each one, do my PIPE processing, and when all done write a
> final PIPE to merge all of the individual files and combine into one final
> output file.
>
> I suppose that preprocessing on MVS is an obvious alternative, but I wish
> that I could figure out how to do this while staying at home (on VM:-)
>
> John
>
