Steve,
Thank you for your suggestion. I have worked with EDI, but it didn't come
to mind. This listserv really helps many of us out.
Thanks again, Dave
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Steve Thompson
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 4:48 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: z/OS VSAM FTP Advice?
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?
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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)
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