On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 14:51:29 -0600, McKown, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >It's not really >important since most places should have Java installed and the "jar" >command actually produces ZIP output files. But it only support UNIX >files, not z/OS datasets. > Timing is everything!! It can support z/OS data sets (including a PDS) if you NFS mount them. I just tested it. And because of the way I NFS mounted the MVS "directory" (HLQ) in my test, it did the ascii translation also. We were just talking about PKZIP or ZIP/390 yesterday for a new requirement for one of our business units. I thought about using jar but the first file mentioned in the inquiry is "large". It compresses after a transfer to the PC to about 3G via zip but moving it to a HFS first in order to use JAR to then compress it and then FTP it would require a fair amount of DASD (the original MVS dataset, the uncompressed unix file, then the compressed unix jar file. I didn't even think about NFS until your post. I'm sure this isn't the most efficient way... but FREE goes a long way. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS 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
