On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:01:31 -0500, McKown, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I cannot directly access the Internet from our z/OS system. Therefore, I >use the IBM "Download Manager" to get my SMP/E orders downloaded to my >desktop. I then "tar" that subdirectory into a tar file, ftp it (binary) >up to the z/OS system, and use "pax" to unwind (explode, untar) it. I >then do the SMP/E RECEIVE FROM NTS command. Is there any need to keep >the SMPNTS subdirectory around after this is done successfully? I cannot >think of any. You only need SMPNTS for RECEIVE. See the Fine Manual. You can keep it around after that if you like, but it is not required. We are able to do RECEIVEFROMNETWORK (as well as SMP/E 3.4 RECEIVE ORDER) here and I have a shared SMPNTS set up as 4 3390-9 volumes. I then use a weekly skulker command via cron to delete everything older than 90 days. I did run into a problem in that skulker didn't seem to remove the empty directories. I think this was because they kept getting referenced by skulker itself weekly. To get around that problem I borrowed "rmemptydir" from Heiner Steven that I found on the web. I had to modify it not to delete the starting directory in case there was nothing in SMPNTS at all. These days that would be very unlikely, but when we all started using RECEIVEFROMNETWORK it was a possibility. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group: G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
