If you need near-time or real-time access to the data, I would recommend you look at CA Technologies product called VSAM Transparency for Datacom/DB. Having used this for a lot of years, it was great. The 20-second description is that it allows your application programs to continue accessing the database as if it was VSAM, but you also get the benefit of a full-blown database file (concurrent online and batch updates, SQL access, access through a server, etc.). It is really pretty great to use, fairly easy to implement (I believe - I didn't do it), but it is not free. We used it for quite a while and converted a couple vendor applications using VSAM to the database, and the vendor code had no problems. The only real changes were to JCL and to the FCT in CICS.
Billy On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Paul Gilmartin < [email protected]> wrote: > On 2014-10-07, at 07:48, Scott Ford wrote: > > > What about IDCAMS (REPRO) -> QSAM -> FTP -> Other Platform > > > Is REPRO POSIX-pipe savvy? I know FTP is POSIX-pipe (FIFO) savvy. > > What about Batchpipes? > > (I imagine IDCAMS (REPRO) | QSAM | FTP -> Other Platform) > > OTOH I got a bad ABEND when I allocated SYSTSPRT to a UNIX file > and issued a REPRO command. APAR closed PRS. Ouch! > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Thank you and best regards, *Billy Ashton* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
