On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 03:54:44 +0000, W Mainframe wrote: >A suggestion...Could be better or not... You could try... Convert your volume >to a cckd image using Hercules utilies. Once they are converted, you will be >take advantage of compression and time to this transfer. I did same thing some >thing, with success. Btw there is one a problem, you need to move your >datasets to a same volume.. Make sense? > A clever idea! That would contain all the data and all the formatting/metadata, to be unwound at leisure at the receiving end. Somewhat like a .ISO.
Would AWSTAPE provide similar benefit. Would need to unload PDS and VSAM. Otherwise: o Is there a z/OS utility to generate a CCKD? Or, would it be necessary to run Hecules in a Linux guest to which the source volume could be ATTACHed? o Classic 3390 volumes are pretty small by today's conventions. Can CCKD handle EAV? What are the z/OS restrictions on EAV? o What about PDSE? The format is not generally documented. (But has it been reverse-enginered?) (But OP specified sequential.) o Big-endian; little-endian. A shame, resulting in impossibility of NFS-sharing a CCKD archive among z, Sparc, Intel, ARM, ... AWSTAPE wisely is uniformly little-endian, leaving it to big-endian hosts to adapt on the fly. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
