Dave, Thanks for mentioning Co:Z, which is now a free offering. We built it with exactly this kind of thing in mind - we have 31 and 64 bit LSB rpm packages for Linux on z ready to go.
With Co:Z, you can also access MVS datasets as "pipes" on Linux. So, for the case that you mentioned - PGP encryption, here's example JCL: //COZCB3 JOB (),'COZ' //STEP1 EXEC PROC=COZPROC, // ARGS='[EMAIL PROTECTED]' //STDIN DD * fromdsn -l rdw -k //DD:INPUT \ | gpg -r key-1 --batch --output=- --encrypt=- \ | todsn -b //DD:OUTPUT /* //INPUT DD DISP=SHR,DSN=KIRK.CLEARTEXT.DATA //OUTPUT DD DSN=KIRK.ENCRYPT,DISP=(NEW,PASS), // SPACE=(CYL,(1,1),RLSE), // DCB=(RECFM=U,BLKSIZE=4096) For more explanation of this example, see: http://dovetail.com/docs/coz/cookbook.html#4_3 Co:Z can be configured to either tunnel data through SSH, or to use direct sockets. In a z environment, this means that you can use ssh for authentication and unencrypted hipersockets to for data - which SCREAMS..... There is *not* an easier or faster way to integrate Linux and z/OS processes and data: - Why not use z/OS as a batch scheduler for running Linux jobs? - Running Oracle on Linux and need to export/import data from z/OS datasets? - Its easy, and all managed and visible from your z/OS batch envionment. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Jan 30, 2008 9:13 AM, Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And things like data encryption (PGP, etc.) and data compression (GZIP, > BZIP, etc.) make good candidates as well, (and you can avoid the license > charges for PKZIUP on z/OS. :-) > > You might also want to check out the new Co:Z Co-processing Toolkit as > well. It allows a z/OS batch job to remotely > launch a process on a distributed system, redirecting input and output > from the remote process to traditional z/OS datasets or spool files. > More info here: http://dovetail.com/products/coz.html > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
