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

2013-06-17 Thread Charles Mills
Biancucci > Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 9:12 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: 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

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

2013-06-17 Thread Massimo Biancucci
2013 9:12 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: 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 mu

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

2013-06-13 Thread Charles Mills
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: anyone familiar 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 acti

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 m

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

2013-06-11 Thread Charles Mills
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: 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 RL

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

2013-06-11 Thread Massimo Biancucci
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'80' and you have to analyze from the second one for the

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

2013-06-11 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <0b0201ce6644$f2aa0100$d7fe0300$@mcn.org>, on 06/10/2013 at 06:42 PM, Charles Mills said: >Thanks. I remember SCS! I've written a couple of 3270 emulators. SCS >was used for 3270 printers, right? Among other things, SCS is used for *SNA* 3270 printers. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, S

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

2013-06-10 Thread Charles Mills
2013 5:42 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Anyone familiar with how z/OS CSRCESRV works? On 10 June 2013 19:58, Charles Mills wrote: > Is anyone familiar with the "internals" of CSRCESRV run-length compression? > I am familiar with RLE schemes in general -- typically

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

2013-06-10 Thread Tony Harminc
On 10 June 2013 19:58, Charles Mills 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 . Does > anyone know the specifics of z/OS's scheme?