> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
>
> On Sat, 3 Jul 2010 13:00:08 -0500, Chase, John wrote:
> >
> >Unfortunately, I didn't get that far. My job was still unzipping one
of
> >the /SMPPTFIN archives when it pushed back saying, "I'm stuffed, and
> >cannot eat another byte." It never made it to the /SMPRELF
> >subdirectory. :-(
> >
> You must be installing service rather than product.
The package contains about 3 GiB of product and about 5.5 GiB of
accumulated maintenance. SMP/E apparently wants to process the
maintenance first.
> >It would be really nice if SMP/E would move the unzipped /SMPPTFIN
files
> >into the SMPPTS and delete them from SMPWKDIR "one at a time" instead
of
> >unzipping them all first.
>
> Indeed. But it would be tricky because they must be concatenated.
> It could be done with POSIX pipes; in fact the code could be RYO,
> outboard from SMP/E RECEIVE. But the error recovery would be
> messy.
You lost me there.... Each PTF becomes a separate member in the SMPPTS,
so "theoretically" the maintenance could as logically be shipped as a
bazillion files each containing a single PTF, as a single file
containing a bazillion PTFs. The KISS principle should intersect
economies of scale somewhere in between.
> And what's the granularity of your SMPPTFIN files? Not just one
> enormous one?
In the Shopz package it appears that each component has its own SMPPTFIN
file(s), some of which are rather gargantuan (ca. 2 GiB).
-jc-
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