Greetings Listers, PIPEDDR can use TERSE or PACK stages for compression or use no compression.. It only fails if TERSE option is specified and the stage is not available. It is written so it does not rely on TERSE
I have used PIPEDDR with PACK option to transfer complete 3390s from one data centre to another and it works well. It saved the delay of waiting for a courier to take a cartridge. Just an aside, I thought I would update the code so it used standard PIPES but when I did that TCPIP packets were lost. Maybe TCPCLIENT and TCPLISTEN have different code or maybe I screwed it up or maybe it was timing. Another aside. Thanks to the author Bruce Hayden publishing the code I was able to use PIPEDDR as a model and instead of using TRACKREAD and TRACKWRITE to read and write dasd I used READER and URO to read and write spool making a very simple NJETCP link. Cheers Graeme
