Complaining to the Support Center is sometimes very effective. I complained a couple of years ago about the requirement that dumps be sent in COPYFILE packed format. After I gave them the numbers for one of our dumps packed by COPYFILE vs. VMARC, and indicated that our development network apparently wasn't the fastest thing around, they agreed that much smaller is better. They started accepting VMARC packed files.
Regards, Richard Schuh -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 9:37 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: PIPEDDR On Wednesday, 07/11/2007 at 12:08 EDT, Thomas Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, that is the stuff. IBM sends us TERSEd files and we have to DETERSE > them. On that better system that has to send more dumps to IBM there is the > TRSMAIN program to help reduce the bandwidth for dump transfer. But I think > it would violate multiple IBM legalese documents for us to reverse engineer > that program into a VM usable module or pipe stage. > > I can understand that some code MUST be kept secret, but if it is good > enough for one system, why isn't it good enough for the other systems (Does > VSE have a TERSE program for its dumps?)? We are investigating the issues surrounding dump compression and encryption for the VM environment. It is my hope, though, that the solution to these problems will be more generally useful. Of course, if you're aren't having trouble getting data to the Support Center, or aren't complaining (to the Support Center) if you do, then I guess we don't have a problem to solve, and can move on to something else, eh? ;-) Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
