On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 10:05:16 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote:
>
>This is not correct, Paul. The data would be extracted using GIMUNZIP,
>and AFAIK, they are not encoded with GIMDTS.
>
>>It all depends on whether the intended recipient has
>>access to SMP/E and is authorized to perform an APPLY (APAR IO11698).
>
>Nope. It requires that the recipient be authorized to use GIMUNZIP.
>
I stand corrected on this; somewhat happily.
I archived a UNIX directory with GIMZIP and examined the product.
It was strange_name.pax.Z file plus a couple control files. I
extracted it successfully (but not usefully) on a non-IBM system.
But it raises a lot of questions:
o For file transfer to a foreign system, has this any advantage over
the simpler direct use of pax. Pax from the command line
also supports code page conversion which might be useful.
o I didn't try a VSAM cluster (VSAM is black magic to me). If
one archives a VSAM cluster with GIMZIP and extracts it with
GIMUNZIP on a different system, is it immediately useful?
o How do IBM and other vendors largely deliver PTFs nowadays?
In SMPPTFIN format with inline elements, or in FROMNETWORK
format?
o Are there noways element types (UNIX?, VSAM?) which can be
delivered only in SMPNTS format, never in SMPPTFIN format?
o If I RECEIVE a SYSMOD containing a GIMZIPped UNIX directory,
what goes in the GLOBAL zone? In what format? If I APPLY it,
what goes in the target zone? If I ACCEPT it, what goes in the
DLIB zone?
o All these questions should be answered by RTFM. 22 months ago,
I submitted an RCF concerning:
Title: z/OS Packaging Rules
Document Number: SC23-3695-10
Build Date: 05/22/03 10:45:55
... concerning absence of rules for network delivery. I received an
encouraging reply, "... This document does need to be updated and
I have brought it to the attention of development, who agrees with
your observation." So far, no change (but am I looking in the wrong
place?)
I work in a niche division of a large corporation. The corporate standard
is that any software package, installation or patch, shall be delivered
as a .zip package containing either a README.txt or a README.html
file plus an unspecified number of payload files in unspecified format.
Our division certainly lacks the leverage to effect a change in this.
Subject to these constraints, and absent current information in
SC23-3695-10, would customers prefer SYSMODS (FUNCTION and PTF)
in format:
o SMPNTS further wrapped in a pax (or other) envelope?
o SMPNTS as many separate (EBCDIC) files?
o A single SMPPTFIN in the aforementioned zip package?
o Other (specify)?
Thanks,
gil
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