Interesting question! My first thought would be to do a DFDSS logical dump of it. You would probably then need to terse it if you want to send via FTP.
Would be interested in the results. On 29 September 2016 at 14:09, Mauri Kanter <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi: > > My understanding is that one a file was compressed with z/EDC is it is > like a .zip file and reading it unzips it. > Is the above is wrong, please correct me. If no, let's continue .... > > Suppose I do have a huge file which I will compress with z/EDC on my disk > and I want to FTP it to another clever mainframe customer that is also > running z/OS and also bought a z/EDC card. > > If I send the file directly using FTP, I guess my FTP will decompress the > file before sending it, and the target customer will compress it again, > wasting both CPU and bandwidth. > > Is there a way to read the "z/EDC compressed" file without expanding while > reading it ? If yes, can it be transmitted with FTP ? If it were a .zip > file I'm sure I wouldn't unzip it before sending it ... > > Thanks in advance for any ideas. > > Mauri. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
