Paul,
I was successful in decompressing a sequential tersed file with PACK option
created on the mainframe to PC. I ftp'd the file to PC with binary option.
This converted the file content from EBCDIC to ASCII when decompressed.
I:\tersepc\Dcollect>..\terse dcollect.dcollog.tersed dcollect -e37 -d -f255
TERSE 2.1d (Windows)
Cross-Platform Compression Utility
Michael Nagy, MNAGY @ SPPVM1
Copyright (C) Advantis, 1994
Input from source file "dcollect.dcollog.tersed".
Output to target file "dcollect".
Host Text File Compatibility Mode
Codepages: From 037 To 437 (EBCDIC --> ASCII).
Countries: Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, United States.
Decoded 2358 bytes into 27756 bytes. 91.50% Expansion.
The PDS file fails with "Invalid file header". When I run examine on the file
It does indicate PDS PACK or SPACK is invalid.
I:\tersepc\Dcollect>..\terse dcollect.log.tersed -x
TERSE 2.1d (Windows)
Cross-Platform Compression Utility
Michael Nagy, MNAGY @ SPPVM1
Copyright (C) Advantis, 1994
Input from source file "dcollect.log.tersed".
Header: Version Label Flag = 7 (should be 7)
Header: Variable Block Flag = 0 (should be 1 or 0)
Header: Record Length = 255 (should not be 0)
Header: MVS - Format Flags = 12 (should not be 0)
Header: MVS - Ratio = 33 (may be any value)
Header: MVS - Block Size = 27795 (may be any value)
Header: Conditional Filler = 0 (should be 0)
Header Indicates Incompatible MVS Host PDS "PACK" Format
I:\tersepc\Dcollect>..\terse -x dcollect.dcollog.tersed1
TERSE 2.1d (Windows)
Cross-Platform Compression Utility
Michael Nagy, MNAGY @ SPPVM1
Copyright (C) Advantis, 1994
Input from source file "dcollect.dcollog.tersed1".
Header: Version Label Flag = 9 (should be 9)
Header: Variable Block Flag = 0 (should be 1 or 0)
Header: Record Length = 255 (should not be 0)
Header: MVS - Format Flags = 12 (should not be 0)
Header: MVS - Ratio = 69 (may be any value)
Header: MVS - Block Size = 27795 (may be any value)
Header: Conditional Filler = 0 (should be 0)
Header Indicates Incompatible MVS Host PDS "SPACK" Format
So to answer your question, I can safe to say PDS <---> SFS is not possible.
But you can interchange data via sequential files.
HTH,
Natarajan
>>> On 3/18/2010 at 11:57 AM, in message
>>> <listserv%201003181357189930.0...@bama.ua.edu>, Paul Gilmartin
>>> <paulgboul...@aim.com> wrote:
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:20:38 -0700, Natarajan Mohan wrote:
>
>You would have to login to yahoo groups for hercules-390 @
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hercules-390 and go to files. You will find
>terse.zip file containing executables for windows/dos/mac/linux etc.
>
Both terse and unterse?
Ummm. Doesn't terse reflect a lot of information from the DSCB?
How does that play on a non-z?OS platform?
For that matter, can terse be used for interchange between
z/OS and z/VM? PDS[E] <--> SFS directory?
-- gil
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