Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-10-08 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Chris Mason wrote: When VTAM is doing a GETMAIN for more buffers, all using VTAM need to wait for that GETMAIN to complete. Not a problem, but observable ... The trick here is to tune the dynamic buffering parameters. You can set the affected buffer pool to have sufficient buffers to be able

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-10-08 Thread Ed Finnell
The 'tuning column' is number of times Expanded. In a message dated 10/8/2012 6:44:33 A.M. Central Daylight Time, elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za writes: DISPLAY NET,BFRUSE command *after* the morning rush happens. --

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-10-06 Thread Chris Mason
To all interested in this topic, particularly, for the first topic, Norbert Friemel (for Gilbert Saint-Flour), Phil Smith and Edward Jaffe Would someone be so kind as to explain why the two flavours for the operation of IND$FILE are tied to Control Unit Terminal (CUT) type and Distributed

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-10-06 Thread Chris Mason
John Does that mean that when I use IND$FILE with a 64x128 screen it sends 8192 bytes at a time ? I think so. But remember that those 8192 bytes must include any require 3270 protocol overhead bytes. Assuming my analysis of the significance of *not* being able to use Write Structured

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-10-06 Thread Chris Mason
Mike Here is Microsoft's suggestions for increasing the speed, from 2004. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/125881 The first point to make here is that the configuration which applies to Bill Gates's SNA Server (BizTalk Server Host Integration Server these grandiloquent days) is probably *not*

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-10-06 Thread Chris Mason
Elardus When VTAM is doing a GETMAIN for more buffers, all using VTAM need to wait for that GETMAIN to complete. Not a problem, but observable ... The trick here is to tune the dynamic buffering parameters. You can set the affected buffer pool to have sufficient buffers to be able to cater

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-09-25 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Chris Mason wrote: 'Maximizing the SNA RU size reduces end-to-end acknowledgments at the 3270 application level.' This is just common sense. Thanks. Agreed. In order to illustrate the point I'm assuming you have to send 10K of data and the flow control parameters are such that each unit of

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-09-22 Thread Chris Mason
Mike Well, I did the research for you! - According to Gilbert Saint-Flour's web page, IND$FILE dates from 1983. - According to RFC 765, FTP dates from 1980. Much older program. Neither much nor older as 1980 comes before 1983! Chris Mason On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 07:16:25 -0500, Mike Schwab

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-09-22 Thread Chris Mason
Dave ... does anyone know what protocol is used for file transfers by the ISPF Workstation Agent (WSA.EXE)? I guess the folk who created it do! Perhaps the question you wanted to ask is the following: Would someone please describe what protocols are used by the ISPF WSA? Well, I have

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-09-22 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
chrisma...@belgacom.net (Chris Mason) writes: Well, I did the research for you! - According to Gilbert Saint-Flour's web page, IND$FILE dates from 1983. - According to RFC 765, FTP dates from 1980. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#37 Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-09-21 Thread Scott Ford
: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ? Does that mean that when I use IND$FILE with a 64x128 screen it sends 8192 bytes at a time ? Regards, Thomas Berg ___ Thomas Berg Specialist AM/SMS SWEDBANK AB

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-09-21 Thread Roger Bolan
On my systems FTP is still faster than IND$FILE, but let me just throw out a little tidbit for consideration. On my own Personal Communications sessions that use IND$FILE for transfers, I found a very noticeable increase in speed if I defined my connections using the numeric dotted IP address for

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-09-21 Thread zMan
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Roger Bolan rogerbo...@gmail.com wrote: On my systems FTP is still faster than IND$FILE, but let me just throw out a little tidbit for consideration. On my own Personal Communications sessions that use IND$FILE for transfers, I found a very noticeable

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-09-21 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
edja...@phoenixsoftware.com (Edward Jaffe) writes: You've described the old CUT-mode interface. Somewhere around the early 1980s, DFT mode was introduced. It does not encode the data, use a screen to send it, or any of that. It simply wraps the binary data in a 3270 structured field envelope

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-09-20 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Scott ford wrote: 'Maximizing the SNA RU size reduces end-to-end acknowledgments at the 3270 application level.' That's called pacing, vpacing Oh, yes. Thanks, now all make sense to me! Many thanks for helping out! I appreciate it very much! :-D Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-09-20 Thread Ed Finnell
Lots of nooks and crannies. If you're so inclined === d net,bfruse will show different pools in use and any dynamic expansion. Lots of tuning opportunities. Got it going pretty good and another app dies 'cause we don't support vpacing! The old AT3270 had a really good manual. For some

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-09-19 Thread Mike Schwab
Try larger blocksizes. Much older program. On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 6:34 AM, Tsai Laurence ltsai85...@gmail.com wrote: Dear listers , as the subject, test file transfer through TSO IND$FILE TCP/IP FTP , and found TSO IND$FILE is much slower than FTP. Any idea why ? Regards, Laurence --

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-09-19 Thread Charles Mills
It just is. Funky protocol. -- Sent from my mobile phone. Please excuse my brevity. Charles Tsai Laurence ltsai85...@gmail.com wrote: Dear listers , as the subject, test file transfer through TSO IND$FILE TCP/IP FTP , and found TSO IND$FILE is much slower than FTP. Any idea why ? Regards,

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-09-19 Thread McKown, John
:35 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ? Dear listers , as the subject, test file transfer through TSO IND$FILE TCP/IP FTP , and found TSO IND$FILE is much slower than FTP. Any idea why ? Regards, Laurence

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-09-19 Thread Scott Ford
Mike, I use 32k on Qws3270p ... Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Sep 19, 2012, at 8:16 AM, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com wrote: Try larger blocksizes. Much older program. On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 6:34 AM, Tsai Laurence ltsai85...@gmail.com wrote: Dear listers , as the subject,

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-09-19 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Tsai Laurence wrote: as the subject, test file transfer through TSO IND$FILE TCP/IP FTP , and found TSO IND$FILE is much slower than FTP. Any idea why ? Blocksize, 3270 screen size limits and overhead of TSO between VTAM as well as IND$FILE which needs to work with the emulator handling

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-09-19 Thread Norbert Friemel
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 07:39:13 -0500, McKown, John wrote: ftp does not go through as many transitions. Basically, there is an IP connection to a server which write directly to a file. The only encode/decode is if you do an ASCII translation. With TSO IND$FILE, you must encode and decode all your

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-09-19 Thread Paolo Cacciari
Tsai, to speed up IND$FILE, have you tried to add BUFNUM=32 (for example) in the VTAMLST LOCAL node for TSO terminals?? Hope this helps. Paolo Cacciari Senior IT Specialist - Certified Dear listers , as the subject, test file transfer through TSO IND$FILE TCP/IP FTP , and found TSO

Re: SV: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-09-19 Thread Scott Ford
://www.identityforge.com/   From: Thomas Berg thomas.b...@swedbank.se To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 10:03 AM Subject: SV: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ? Does that mean that when I use IND$FILE

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-09-19 Thread McKown, John
, 2012 9:04 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: SV: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ? Does that mean that when I use IND$FILE with a 64x128 screen it sends 8192 bytes at a time ? Regards, Thomas Berg

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-09-19 Thread Chris Mason
Laurence John McKown gave you a rather long explanation. A shorter one - from which John's points can be derived - is that the TSO session supporting the 3270 data stream was *never* designed to support file transfer. It was designed to support conversational interaction with an end user

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-09-19 Thread Chris Mason
Mike Much older program. You might like to research that point. I'm not at all sure that it is. Also I wouldn't necessarily conclude that age necessarily answered Laurence's question. Chris Mason On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 07:16:25 -0500, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com wrote: Try larger

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-09-19 Thread Chris Mason
Paolo Hope this helps. Only if Laurence Tsai is using an ICC at the point of concatenation and only for inbound transfers. When an ICC is used, the VTAM statement defining the secondary LU is a LOCAL statement. When the SNA-oriented TELNET server supplied with the IP component of z/OS

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-09-19 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 09/19/2012 07:39 AM, McKown, John wrote: ftp does not go through as many transitions. Basically, there is an IP connection to a server which write directly to a file. The only encode/decode is if you do an ASCII translation. With TSO IND$FILE, you must encode and decode all your data into

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-09-19 Thread Phil Smith
I'm quite sure that it has to do with screen buffer sizes, including whether the connection is CUT or DFT. I've been at sites where a multi-megabyte IND$FILE takes seconds, and at others where 100K takes minutes. Of course since it's doing terminal I/O, and lots of it, the network and VTAM and

Re: SV: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-09-19 Thread Charles Mills
File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ? Dear listers , as the subject, test file transfer through TSO IND$FILE TCP/IP FTP , and found TSO IND$FILE is much slower than FTP. Any idea why ? Regards, Laurence

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-09-19 Thread Mike Schwab
Here is Microsoft's suggestions for increasing the speed, from 2004. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/125881 On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: Mike, I use 32k on Qws3270p ... Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Sep 19, 2012, at 8:16 AM, Mike Schwab