I suppose most of us get things off of the CBTTape.org web site by using a desktop browser to go to the web site and "save as" to our PC. Then unzip the file on our PC. Then ftp upload the XMIT file up to z/OS. I've gotten tired of this. So I found a way to cheat. In case anyone is curious, this is how I do it interactively. It requires installing the "ported tools" version of curl and Java installed.
1) go to the CBTtape.org site to determine the URL of the CBTtape file you want. E.g. cbttape.org/ftp/updates/CBT897.zip 2) get to a z/OS UNIX shell and enter the following UNIX commands cd some-subdirectory curl -B http://cbttape.org/ftp/updates/CBT987.zip jar xf CBT987.zip ls -ltr #to find name of extracted file cp -B -W "seqparms='space=(cyl,(1,1)),recfm=fb,lrecl=80,blksize=3120'" FILE897.XMI exit 3) do the normal RECEIVE INDATASET(FILE897.XMI) to restore the PDS. I don't know if the above will be of any use to anybody other than myself. -- As of next week, passwords will be entered in Morse code. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
