I'm not sure if this helps, but the z/OS pax command supports reading archives from an MVS dataset.
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Kurt Quackenbush <[email protected]> wrote: > McKown, John wrote: > >> Could I ask a question which I know you likely cannot answer. But, if >> possible, could you explain why the SMP/E Internet download stuff in >> SMP/E uses UNIX files to store the data rather than z/OS "legacy" >> type datasets (perhaps compressed with TERSE or XMIT'ed)? >> > > As a matter of fact I can answer that question. Mostly because the > download FTP servers and their file systems are not necessarily z/OS, and > non-z/OS systems do not typically play well with z/OS data sets. We wanted > to keep the package and file structure Internet-friendly (platform > agnostic?) so it wouldn't matter much what kind of system was used to serve, > or download. Remember, for those that cannot or choose not to download > directly to z/OS, we expect the package to be downloaded to a workstation. > In addition, we wanted to use a supported and "standard" > archive/compression utility. The UNIX pax command was our choice. > Therefore, UNIX files seemed like a good choice all around. > > I'm sure we could have made other choices, and I'm sure some folks on this > list will be more than happy to point them out to me. Be that as it may, > the format we landed on was and is UNIX files. It is unfortunate you have > to jump through hoops to get a set of volumes to use for the download. Can > you work with your storage admins to avoid this in the future? > > Kurt Quackenbush -- IBM, SMP/E Development > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
