On 2021-03-09 20:43, Cheryl Watson wrote:
I hope this isn't considered advertising if it's for a free product, but we'd like to announce our new WWUNTERSE (no-charge) product.
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To address this need, and because we spent a lot of our own time moving SMF data around, our colleague Mario Bezzi created a program called WWUNTERSE. WWUNTERSE runs on Windows and Linux. It can process tersed files that were created from VBS files. It also supports tersed versions of F, FB, V, VB, and VBS files. And it provides the option to include the Block Descriptor Word (BDW) in the output file (as required by MXG/SAS on distributed systems). And the best news of all is that there is no charge for WWUNTERSE. It is available for download now, from the Free Tools page of the Watson & Walker public website at https://watsonwalker.com/software/free-tools/. Please take it for a test drive and let us know what you think.
Unlike PCTERSE the program and IBMs offering it doesn't do any EBCDIC-ASCII translation...
Why hasn't it been released as open source under the same license, after all it's just decompression code, and given the note in the User's Guide,
"The decompress function of TERSE was recently ported to Java by IBM and it is available under the Apache 2.0 license and is available here. However, that program doesn’t support VBS format either."
so that those with the knowledge can add features like EBCDIC-ASCII translation, or incorporate the code into something with a GUI?
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