> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Hare > Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 8:50 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: TRSMAIN question > > > I believe TRSMAIN uses an LZ (Lempel-Ziv?) or LZW (add > Welch) algorithm > of sorts, but of course the algorithm matters less than the > archive format > in your case. > > IBM's Unix Tools & Toys page (I believe) has GZIP ported for > Unix Systems > Services. I got this to work for me: > > cat "//'dataset_name'" | gzip -c > archive_name.gz > > Yes that is double quotes around the double slash entity, and single > quotes around the fully-qualified dataset name, I am sure > there may be > better syntax(?) but it worked. > > So, if your tape data is cataloged, and you have mount > authority you might > be able to issue a command like that for your tapes, sit > back, and wait. > > Once you're in gzip you can decompress it on a PC I'm sure. > > Oh - you might have to pipe it through iconv to get it into ASCII / > Unicode before zipping it. > > > Tim Hare
Thanks for the idea. It may be easier than trying to reverse engineer TRSMAIN. Assuming that I had the talent to do so and it is not forbidden by IBM. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. It is for intended addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited and could, in certain circumstances, be a criminal offense. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply and delete this message without copying or disclosing it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
