On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:55:50 -0400, Rob Schramm wrote:
>
>On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:39 AM, McKown, John wrote:
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>> That's the direction I was going. I was hoping to create a UNIX script
>> which would use "curl" or "ftp" to download the file I wanted from the
>> ftp://cbttape.org/ftp/cbt/CBT???.zip to a newly made subdirectory. Then
>> use jar to "unzip" it.  ...
>>
I' ve done all that with Rexx.

>> ... The problem now comes in that the result is usually
>> an XMIT file. OK, I can "cp" that to a PS data set with RECFM=FB,LRECL=80
>> and then TSO RECEIVE it. 
>> 
It's easier than that.  RECEIVE works with INDD() allocated to a UNIX path.
One of the few pleasant surprises in TSO.

>>... Unfortunately, I am now a bit stuck.
>> I always need to look at the resultant PDS to see how to actually install.
>> Yes, this is not really a big deal. 
>> 
TANSTAAFL.  But, yes, an autoinstaller would be nice.  But again, don't
get on a slippery slope to Trojan Horses.

>> ... I think that I may ask Sam Golob
>> about hosting a CBTTape moderated Wiki for z/OS. Might even have a page for
>> each CBTTape contribution's "read me" information. I something download
>> things just to get a better idea what they are about.
>> 
It would be nice to have that on cbttape.org itself.  Who'd do the work?
Perhaps a convention for README files created by contributors that would
automatically be linked as web pages for each submission.

-- gil

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