Is it a Unix file on z/OS or a dataset? Will you be transferring the entire file or just reading pieces?
You really should run some benchmarks - especially with NFS. Also, consider how NFS security works - when you access z/OS data from a remote NFS client, you are implicitly trusting the security of the client so that unauthorized users can't access the mounted filesystem. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com PS> With the (free) Co:Z Launcher you can have a hybrid application that processes data as it is transferred. Of course, you can also just transfer the file. By default the connection is tunneled in SSH, but you can also configure to use a raw socket, which is faster than either NFS or FTP. For example: // EXEC PGM=COZLNCH,ARGS='ru...@linux1.myco.com' //MYDATA DD DISP=SHR,DSN=REALLY.BIG.DATASET //COZCFG DD * ssh-tunnel=false //STDIN DD * # This script runs on the remote server, but reaches back # to pipe data into a program that processes it while transferring. # The exit code from the shell script becomes the step return code. # The default is text (EBCDIC->ASCII, newline separators, etc) fromdsn //DD:MYDATA | linux_program args ... # Or maybe you want to process a variable length binary dataset # using RDWs as record separators fromdsn -b -l rdw //DD:MYDATA | linux_program args // Now there's an answer to what zBX blades are good for - appliances to serve z/OS :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
