On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 19:40:15 -0500, John McKown wrote: > >So, I would vote for zip'ed XMIT files. Maybe with some sort of desktop >application (Windows, Linux and Mac please!) which would help with the >upload. CompuWare does this rather well with their products. > The OP asked about tape; followups drifted onto FTP and optical media. For tape, XMIT has no advantage over IEBCOPY; it merely introduces complexity. Perhaps for other vehicles, an XMIT unloaded set of images of data sets on tape would be most straightforward. IBM has chosen not to do this, perhaps to avoid the need for a desktop waystation.
A few weeks ago, I mentioned that I have an entirely z/OS job which will fetch and unwrap CBT-style packages. One reader of this list expressed interest and I sent him a copy. He reported that his site's network security policies prohibited its use. -- 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
