John; Thanks. This is great info. Is there any chance you could upload or post the change for a disconnected output stream (and anything else you think is useful)?
Thanks. - Hobart On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Larson, John E. <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- OREXXMan
