From: "Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN" <[email protected]> Date: 05/15/2013 05:31 PM
Dear Group, I have been looking at ways to FTP VSAM files between two z/OS systems. I learned that VSE totally supports FTPing of VSAM files, even when VSE is the server. But I don't have a VSE system to bounce my z/OS VSAM files off of. I found something called "DDMFTP" from the Microsoft Developers Network that works with the Host Integration Server 2004 using the stream input/output protocol of the IBM Distributed Data Management (DDM) architecture. It interoperates with a specific target DDM server implementation called IBM Distributed FileManager. The DDM server is available as a component of the IBM Data Facility Storage Management Subsystem (DFSMS). Does other software work with IBM's Distributed FileManager? I think I figured out VSAM is not supported under z/OS FTPD. To move a VSAM file it looks like I need to convert it to a flat file. Once you move the flat file you have all the VSAM work to get it back into a cluster. Q). Are there any other options (or software) I may be missing to move VSAM clusters between data centers? ------- I think you will find that Connect:Direct for z/OS will do this for you. And if you configure it, you can have the data encrypted across the wire -- assuming that security is a concern. You could do an ADRDSSU to dump the VSAM cluster, then FTP the "dumpds" to the other z/OS system, where you can take ADRDSSU to restore it. Regards, Steve Thompson formerly of the MFT group at IBM (still w/ IBM, just diff group) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
