Re: Anyone familiar with how z/OS CSRCESRV works?

2013-06-17 Thread Massimo Biancucci
from someone who has already done those experiments. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Massimo Biancucci Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 9:12 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Anyone familiar with how

Re: Anyone familiar with how z/OS CSRCESRV works?

2013-06-17 Thread Charles Mills
: Anyone familiar with how z/OS CSRCESRV works? Hi, in the past I had to look at such a tricky because CICS write SMF with RLE if requested and I had to uncompress data on a PC. The compressed buffer must start with x'80' else it's not compressed with RLE (so the first character must be x

Re: anyone familiar with how z/OS CSRCESRV works?

2013-06-13 Thread Peter Relson
Apologies if this is a duplicate post; I sent this a couple of days ago but never saw it in the digest. Note that this is not an interface, nor a commitment that it will stay this way forever; there is no current activity that would lead one to think a change is forthcoming. This is from the

Re: anyone familiar with how z/OS CSRCESRV works?

2013-06-13 Thread Charles Mills
with how z/OS CSRCESRV works? Apologies if this is a duplicate post; I sent this a couple of days ago but never saw it in the digest. Note that this is not an interface, nor a commitment that it will stay this way forever; there is no current activity that would lead one to think a change

Re: Anyone familiar with how z/OS CSRCESRV works?

2013-06-10 Thread Tony Harminc
On 10 June 2013 19:58, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Is anyone familiar with the internals of CSRCESRV run-length compression? I am familiar with RLE schemes in general -- typically a run of n identical characters is replaced with something like escapencharacter. Does anyone know the

Re: Anyone familiar with how z/OS CSRCESRV works?

2013-06-10 Thread Charles Mills
: Anyone familiar with how z/OS CSRCESRV works? On 10 June 2013 19:58, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Is anyone familiar with the internals of CSRCESRV run-length compression? I am familiar with RLE schemes in general -- typically a run of n identical characters is replaced with something