Thanks! I didn't see that link on the left hand side for the DFDSS download.
-- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets® 9151 Boulevard 26 . N. Richland Hills . TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone . [email protected] . www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets® is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company®, Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Knutson, Sam > Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 11:23 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Correction to Carmine's Book Cost > > >> I am now trying to figure out how to directly download a CBTTape > file to a z/OS system and process it there. I.e. eliminate the need to > download to a "desktop", unzip, then ftp to the mainframe. > > It is available. All you need to FTP access to cbttape.org from your > z/OS mainframe and either FDR or DFSMSdss. > > http://www.cbttape.org/dumpedformatlibrary.htm > > One correction the web page examples still refer to cbttape.net but > this now also hosted at cbttape.org and the pages will be corrected. > Try it and let me know how it works for you. > > ftp://ftp.cbttape.org/pub/dsnbackup/ > > >> Perhaps Sam would be open to a edit-restricted Wiki hosted at > >> cbttape.org > > We could do a Wiki at cbttape.org if there is a clear vision for > content and some core volunteers who work on it. Will have to talk to > Sam Golob off-line and maybe you and some others that seem to have > ideas about what the use case would be for a wiki.cbttape.org > repository. Making the technology available is the easy part. > > > Best Regards, > > Sam Knutson, GEICO > System z Team Leader > mailto:[email protected] > (office) 301.986.3574 > (cell) 301.996.1318 > > "Think big, act bold, start simple, grow fast..." > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of McKown, John > Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 9:22 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Correction to Carmine's Book Cost > > I don't feel that the CBTTape is a good place for general > "documentation" which people need to "peruse" at their leisure. That's > why I think that a Wiki-like site to parallel the CBTTape code site > would be useful. Perhaps Sam would be open to a edit-restricted Wiki > hosted at cbttape.org. Where people could submit "articles" to be > included into the Wiki. And then easily read from a simple browser. > What I would be trying to avoid is the necessity of a person to > "download" the data for off-line reading. Being the "weird" person that > I am, I have been trying to figure out some "better" way to distribute > code than the current CBTTape packaging. To Sam's credit, I haven't > really been able to. I am now trying to figure out how to directly > download a CBTTape file to a z/OS system and process it there. I.e. > eliminate the need to download to a "desktop", unzip, then ftp to the > mainframe. Why? Because (as most know) I am weird. > > -- > John McKown > Systems Engineer IV > IT > > Administrative Services Group > > HealthMarkets(r) > > 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 > (817) 255-3225 phone * > [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com > > > ==================== > This email/fax message is for the sole use of the intended > recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. > Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution of this > email/fax is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please > destroy all paper and electronic copies of the original message. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
