There are commands (todsn and fromdsn) in our free Co:Z Toolkit for converting MVS datasets to/from Unix pipes, which you can redirect into infozip / gzip / bzip2. They offer all sorts of options like line termination rules, codepage conversion, padding/truncation rules, etc.
See: http://dovetail.com/products/dspipes.html An example for converting a text dataset to Latin-1 ASCII using CR/LF as a line terminator and preserving trailing spaces: fromdsn -l crlf -k -s IBM-1047 -t ISO8859-1 //my.dsn | zip my.zip - And if you want to pipe to a dataset or DD, you can use the Co:Z Batch utility to put your shell script inline and work with DD names: // EXEC PGM=COZBATCH //IN DD ... //OUT DD ... //STDIN DD * fromdsn -l crlf -k -s IBM-1047 -t ISO8859-1 //DD:IN | zip - - | todsn -b //DD:OUT // BTW: for me gzip or bzip2 works better for piped input, since zip creates a zip file with a single file named "-" in it. Of course, if you hate OMVS you won't like this ;-) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com PS> Sometimes when you need to deal with many combinations of compressing, encrypting, converting, and transfering datasets from z/OS its just easier (and cheaper) to offload processing to a Linux "gateway appliance". Here's an article from a past zJournal that discusses one approach: http://www.zjournal.com/index.cfm?section=article&aid=1075 On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Vikesh Bhoola <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thank you. > > Perhaps for a different thread, but INFOZIP related, anyone know if its > possible : > 1. to retain trailing blanks in the file for FB records ? > 2. modify the current EBCDIC/ASCII translation table (eg. to change all > non-keyboard characters to '?') > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
