On Mon, 19 May 2008 10:54:16 -0500, McKown, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I like to do the Internet download from ShopzSeries. It works fairly >well. However, I have a problem in that I just don't have a lot of z/OS >dasd to dedicate to the SMPE UNIX files needed. What I do at present is >download to my Windows desktop. I then "tar" (Cygwin) the directory >containing the files. Next, I ftp that tar file to my Linux desktop. I >unwind the tar file into a directory which is NFS mounted on z/OS. Oh, >did I mention that my SMPWKDIR is also NFS mounted to my Linux desktop? >This works. But is excessively S..L..O..W due to the network I/O. > >What I'd like to do is take the downloaded pax.Z files and create a tape >from them. I would need to "unwind" the pax files on Linux, then ftp >them to z/OS. After unwinding the pax files, I end up with a SMPHOLD >file and a SMPMCS file. Could I then just ftp (binary) these to my z/OS >system (to a virtual tape, perhaps) and do a "normal" RECEIVE? > For normal maintenance or most product orders, you really don't need much DASD on z/OS, so why go through all that every time? Even a large product like WebSphere isn't that big. I can see "playing games" for a z/OS Serverpac perhaps, but that should be the exception. Heck, I would think pointing SMPNTS to /tmp would be plenty of space most of the time. BTW, I don't allocate SMPWKDIR. I just have a large SMPNTS. And I know mainframe dasd is not cheap compared to the sata drive in your workstation, but in the total scheme of your mainframe dasd, how much of a pain would it be to get a little more to support this the way it was meant to work? 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
