Re: free zIP/UNZIP in z/OS

2013-06-22 Thread Lizette Koehler
Are the files being zip'd staying on the mainframe or is the intent going from mainframe to open system and unzip? If mainframe only, you can look at TRSMAIN that comes with the system. But you will be limited in what can be zip'd and how. But TRSMAIN is used to take files and transmit them

Re: free zIP/UNZIP in z/OS

2013-06-22 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2013-06-21 10:34, Jan Vanbrabant pisze: Hi, My customer is looking for a freeware ZIP/UNZIP. The 2013 budget doesn't allow him to acquire a fee one apparabtly his need is now. I looked a bit around found Info-ZIP http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/Zip.html IBM Ported Tools for

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2013-06-22 Thread Gabe Goldberg
IBM's savior speaks... http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-06-07/business/39803388_1_computer-giant-ibm-gerstner-jr-life ...I don't think I've seen this link posted here. -- Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, Inc. g...@gabegold.com 3401 Silver Maple Place, Falls Church, VA

Re: free zIP/UNZIP in z/OS

2013-06-22 Thread Thomas Conley
On 6/21/2013 4:34 AM, Jan Vanbrabant wrote: Hi, My customer is looking for a freeware ZIP/UNZIP. The 2013 budget doesn't allow him to acquire a fee one apparabtly his need is now. I looked a bit around found Info-ZIP http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/Zip.html IBM Ported Tools for z/OS

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GIMZIP (was: free zIP/UNZIP in z/OS)

2013-06-22 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 10:05:16 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote: This is not correct, Paul. The data would be extracted using GIMUNZIP, and AFAIK, they are not encoded with GIMDTS. It all depends on whether the intended recipient has access to SMP/E and is authorized to perform an APPLY (APAR

Re: Louis V. Gerstner Jr. lays out his post-IBM life - Washington Post

2013-06-22 Thread Eric Bielefeld
That was an interesting article. I wonder how much Gerstner had to do with the Dubuque center that I used to work at, if anything. From what I remember about IBM during the reign of Gerstner, I doubt it. Gabe - I see you live in Falls Church. About 6 years ago, my son used to live there,

Re: command=verify

2013-06-22 Thread Clark Morris
On 10 Jun 2013 12:53:04 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: I'm being told we use MacKinney Batch and the open/close commands are within the batch job. We also have Mailbox,job scheduler commands in the JCL. 100's of them. Those both sound like application commands, not operating

AW: free zIP/UNZIP in z/OS

2013-06-22 Thread Uwe Oswald
I know that one customer of us have written something in Java to achieve what you want. So, if you're able to do that that might solve yoour problem and Java is free of course :-) -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] Im

Re: free zIP/UNZIP in z/OS

2013-06-22 Thread Greg Price
Doesn't the GCC package ship the MINIZIP and MINIUNZ programs which can be used as stand-alone utilities? If you just want to zip up sequential and partitioned data sets, and optionally transfer to other platforms, they might fit the requirement. One form of these programs is in CBT file 135