Re: emulating a z/OS DDNAME dataset concatenation in Linux

2009-11-02 Thread Eddie Chen
ARIST.EDU Date: 11/02/2009 05:11 PM Subject: Re: emulating a z/OS DDNAME dataset concatenation in Linux Sent by:Linux on 390 Port > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On > Behalf Of John Summerfield > Sen

Re: emulating a z/OS DDNAME dataset concatenation in Linux

2009-11-02 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On > Behalf Of John Summerfield > Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 10:18 AM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: emulating a z/OS DDNAME dataset concatenation in Linux > >

Re: emulating a z/OS DDNAME dataset concatenation in Linux

2009-11-02 Thread Bishop, Peter
linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Eddie Chen Sent: Tuesday, 3 November 2009 3:57 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: emulating a z/OS DDNAME dataset concatenation in Linux I don't know the program/applications is being used or you are running. what you can do in use the DDN

Re: emulating a z/OS DDNAME dataset concatenation in Linux

2009-11-02 Thread Bishop, Peter
LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: emulating a z/OS DDNAME dataset concatenation in Linux Rob van der Heij wrote: > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 5:02 AM, BISHOP, Peter wrote: > >> To John M - yes, I was thinking in "z/OS" terms, where a single open of the >> DDNAME is sufficien

Re: emulating a z/OS DDNAME dataset concatenation in Linux

2009-11-02 Thread Eddie Chen
le to point to the second dataset name. i.eMYDSN=/opt/data/dataset.name.one then change it to "two" From: John Summerfield To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 11/02/2009 11:19 AM Subject: Re: emulating a z/OS DDNAME dataset concatenation in L

Re: emulating a z/OS DDNAME dataset concatenation in Linux

2009-11-02 Thread John Summerfield
Rob van der Heij wrote: On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 5:02 AM, BISHOP, Peter wrote: To John M - yes, I was thinking in "z/OS" terms, where a single open of the DDNAME is sufficient for all the datasets in that DDNAME. To David, Ed and John S - the annoying thing about pipes here is that they incur

Re: emulating a z/OS DDNAME dataset concatenation in Linux

2009-11-02 Thread David Boyes
On Nov 2, 2009, at 8:44 AM, "Rob van der Heij" wrote: > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 5:02 AM, BISHOP, Peter > wrote: > But in a lot of cases you can > make the program use stdin and take the data from the pipe. > > Or use a named pipe pointing to the necessary cat command. ---

Re: emulating a z/OS DDNAME dataset concatenation in Linux

2009-11-01 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 5:02 AM, BISHOP, Peter wrote: > To John M - yes, I was thinking in "z/OS" terms, where a single open of the > DDNAME is sufficient for all the datasets in that DDNAME. > > To David, Ed and John S - the annoying thing about pipes here is that they > incur extra I/O for the

Re: emulating a z/OS DDNAME dataset concatenation in Linux

2009-11-01 Thread BISHOP, Peter
ngineering +61 2 9012 5147 office | +61 2 9012 6620 fax | peter.bis...@hp.com 36-46 George St | Burwood | NSW 2134 Australia -Original Message- From: BISHOP, Peter Sent: Friday, 2 October 2009 1:09 PM To: 'linux-390@vm.marist.edu' Subject: emulating a z/OS DDNAME dataset co

Re: emulating a z/OS DDNAME dataset concatenation in Linux

2009-10-06 Thread John Summerfield
John McKown wrote: I'm a z/OS (and back to OS/VS1) type person. I don't know of any way to I remember PCP, MFT and MVT[-) do this as I think you want to. What I assume is that you basically want to do one open() type function, and have the run time give you the records from the file(s) in the

Re: emulating a z/OS DDNAME dataset concatenation in Linux

2009-10-02 Thread David Boyes
On 10/1/09 11:08 PM, "BISHOP, Peter" wrote: > I've searched around and drawn a blank. What I'm wondering is whether there > is a method in Linux that emulates a z/OS DDNAME's facility of allowing > multiple datasets to be concatenated and effectively treated as one file. Not directly. You can c

Re: emulating a z/OS DDNAME dataset concatenation in Linux

2009-10-02 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
On Thursday 01 October 2009 23:08, BISHOP, Peter wrote: >I've searched around and drawn a blank. What I'm wondering is whether there > is a method in Linux that emulates a z/OS DDNAME's facility of allowing > multiple datasets to be concatenated and effectively treated as one file. > >I looked at

Re: emulating a z/OS DDNAME dataset concatenation in Linux

2009-10-02 Thread John McKown
I'm a z/OS (and back to OS/VS1) type person. I don't know of any way to do this as I think you want to. What I assume is that you basically want to do one open() type function, and have the run time give you the records from the file(s) in the concatenation without any more work on your part anod o

emulating a z/OS DDNAME dataset concatenation in Linux

2009-10-01 Thread BISHOP, Peter
Hi, I've searched around and drawn a blank. What I'm wondering is whether there is a method in Linux that emulates a z/OS DDNAME's facility of allowing multiple datasets to be concatenated and effectively treated as one file. I looked at symbolic links, the "cat" command, variants of the "mount