Vikesh Bhoola writes: >This is a issue, as we really don't have the >additional space to copy the 14GB MVS file to >USS just to zip it.
Is it possible to string together a couple z/OS UNIX commands and use UNIX pipes? I don't think this works exactly, but something roughly like this: cp //\'ANYUSER.PROGRAM.OUTPUT\' | zip /usr/anyuser/output.zip - The zip command does accept stdin (using "-" as shown), and the cp command does read MVS datasets. But I don't think that syntax is exactly right. According to the z/OS 1.10 documentation, the following z/OS UNIX commands support direct interaction with MVS datasets: cp mv pax tar c89 If at least one of those can transparently pipe to stdout, then you should be able to get an MVS dataset into a zip file without writing that 14GB to an intermediate zFS or HFS file. ....Actually, I see in the archives that John McKown posted a possible solution. He said that z/OS UNIX cat does support MVS datasets. (Which isn't documented. :-() But if true, here's what might work: cat //\'ANYUSER.PROGRAM.OUTPUT\' | zip /usr/anyuser/output.zip - There are a few command line options for cat, and of course there are some for zip as well. So those could be added as required. Of course, you can also initiate this sort of command via z/OS JCL (e.g. BPXBATCH) if you need to do that. Anyway, I hope I'm on the right track at least. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan / Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
