On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:46:20 +1000, Paul Gillis wrote: > >We have just done the download, of z/OS 1.10, to PC and upload to the >mainframe. The physical size of the download to the PC was over 8 Gig. The >Download Director worked fine and it loaded each individual dataset that you >would have seen on the tape, all without errors. As we don't have a large >pipe, it took a weekend plus to download the data. > >The upload required more HFS space than can be found on a 3390-9. The ROOT >file was the largest, followed by the SMPPTS, SMPPTS1 and the AAJVHFS file. >Finally have it all on the mainframe but have not yet started the actual >install. The actual upload failed numerous times as I was loading the data >onto 3390-3s as I did not have any 3390-9 at that point in time. The only >issues I had uploading the data was running out of space multiple times. > Can you run an FTP server on the PC (Microsoft, Filezilla, whatever) and bypass the upload step, and rely on the restart capability of RECEIVE FROMNETWORK to recover from errors?
(What's the largest single data set, zipped, which would need to be retried in case of error?) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
