I might agree with the dumps being infrequent, but "too small' is a
color of a different horse.
Regards,
Richard Schuh
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
[mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Mike Walter
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 10:38 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: TERSE/DETERSE
> " IBM Internal Use Only"
How would one consume a TERSE MODULE, anyway? Perhaps a nibble
or a byte at a time, or just swallow it whole (on an empty or full
stomach)? Would it be regulated by the FDA? (Is it Friday yet?
Where's Chuckie?)
Dave asks a valid question. Maybe z/VM dumps have been too
small, and too infrequent? Our z/OS sysprogs regularly use TERSE on
z/OS before FTPing those humongous dumps to z/OS Level 2 support.
One would think that z/VM Level 2 (or Boulder?) would want to
conserve disk space by having us TERSE the file before sending.
Or better yet... a TERSE option on FTP which would permit a
single read and single write (through FTP), instead of TERSE reading a
big dump, packing it up more completely than "COPYFILE (PACK", writing
it to disk, and *then* having FTP read it from disk, write to the net,
etc. But there is probably some FTP standard that would be greatly
upset by such a capability.
Mike Walter
Hewitt Associates
Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not
necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates.
"Dave Jones" <d...@vsoft-software.com>
Sent by: "The IBM z/VM Operating System" <IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU>
12/17/2008 12:26 PM
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"The IBM z/VM Operating System" <IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU>
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Re: TERSE/DETERSE
Doesn't the IBM VM 2nd level support group want sites to send
them VM dumps that have been
compressed by TERSE? Perhaps at one time you had a file that you
wanted to send to IBM,
and they sent you the VM TERSE module so you could compress it
first?
Rothman, Peter wrote:
> We have a TERSE module.
> Not sure where it came from but it is from IBM.
> It is dated May 1993 and contains the string : " IBM Internal
Use Only"
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