>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?
http://www.bsp-gmbh.com/turnkey/cookbook/hercules/cckddasd.html#cckddump On 12 October 2017 at 17:26, Paul Gilmartin < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
