I put out a similar query about a year ago, and was told that this was very workable.
I took me 1-2 weeks (difficult to find time) to make some minor internal changes that were required to make it work in our specific environment with our unique firewalls and such. But now that I have it working I love it and wanted this for a long time. No longer to I have to transfer 10 - 100 million record files from MVS to VM (using a full pack mod 9 available to me) so that I can then run my pipe filter against the file to extract the thousand or whatever records. Simply 'PIPE FTP host mvs_dsn | filter | > final file b' And a real beauty is I don't have to bother with FILEAID or other jobs if I just want the first thousand records for analysis, simply 'PIPE FTP host mvs_dsn '| TAKE 1000 | ... However, I seem to recall that I had to trace the FTP rexx code and make a change to make it exit when it detected the output stream wasn't connected any longer ... pretty sure I had to do this... And yes, I use it in a multi-stream pipe and have one instance pulling a DSN from one MVS system and another instance running simultaneously pulling a DSN from a separate MVS system, merging and processing the two DSNs as one, with filters, I was SO HAPPY when this was suddenly working. I do so much MVS --> VM FTP work in the course of a work day that I wished for an FTP rexx stage for some years, finally dove into the one I'm sure you're referring to and have been enjoying it ever since. John -----Original Message----- From: CMSTSO Pipelines Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hobart Spitz Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2013 4:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: FTP REXX Does anyone know the status of FTP REXX? It's marked as new on the Pipes web page, but the doc and change history dates are more than 10 years old. Is anyone using it? Does anyone know if it still works? Can FTP REXX run under PipeServ? Can multiple instances run successfully at the same time? I'd be happy to get educated guesses in the absence of firm answers. Thanks all. -- OREXXMan
