Hi David (sounds familiar doesn't it!) Perhaps if you were to try zip instead of gzip, as this has a slightly different methodology, that might cure the issue with the unzip on windows. You can get it from http://aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu/aixpdslib.html
Regards David Logan Database Administrator HP Managed Services 139 Frome Street, Adelaide 5000 Australia +61 8 8408 4273 +61 417 268 665 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of djordan Sent: Friday, 6 February 2004 1:25 PM To: 'U2 Users Discussion List' Subject: RE: [UV/AIX] gzip data to file? Hi David Have you found gzip from AIX reliable. I have one client who would gzip the universe sequential file (30MB) and then unzip it on a Win NT4 server and we had a high level of corruption. They don't compress and they transmitt the files in the evening now. I don't know if this was the gzip utility or the Microsoft unzip, although I tried several zip utitlities on Windows and they all ran into the same problem. Regards David Jordan Dacono Holdings Pty Ltd -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hona, David S Sent: Friday, 6 February 2004 12:24 PM To: 'U2 Users Discussion List' Subject: RE: [UV/AIX] gzip data to file? Stuart, We do something similar, but it involves file transfers from a UNIX server to a mainframe. Which then transfers the file to yet another mainframe. Finally, the second mainfame sends it to UNIX server. Don't ask me why! But there are firewalls, third-party vendors involved, etc., etc. We create a 80MB sequential file (plus a few small ones) with a UV BASIC program. Using a shell script: - copy the above file, plus some others into a staging directory - the files are individually compressed using standard UNIX compress (to keep it simple, the third-party didn't or want to use gzip) - all the files are archived into a standard 'tar' archive utility - to disk (again, for simplicity) - the 'tar' file is then transferred to the mainframe via another external shell script - email notifications are sent to end-users to tell them the file was sent to the third-party - sequential files are retained, so we can manually do the file transfer again, if required Also, the second mainframe (the third-party) sends back an empty ASCII file, acknowledging receipt of original file. We use this for an audit trail, of sorts. 'tar' was used, so we didn't have to do individual file transfers. It was a vendor requirement to try to keep the files to together. All of this is triggered from EOM or ad-hoc batch jobs. It works well (err, okay so it took a while to get it there!). Hope this helps. Regards David -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stuart Boydell Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 12:01 PM To: U2-Users Subject: [UV/AIX] gzip data to file? [UV10/AIX] We have a requirement to output (10MB +/- ascii) data into zipped files, the files then being put on a web server for collection. I'm just wondering what the best approach to this might be? How would or have other people approached this? I'm trying to avoid writing the data until after it has been zipped. Rough ideas being... sh - c 'uv prog | gzip -c9 > file' Print to a script? Write to a device (or pipe?)? Output to a java widget? Other? Regards, Stuart Boydell ********************************************************************** This email message and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of addressed recipient(s). If you have received this email in error please notify the Spotless IS Support Centre (61 3 9269 7555) immediately who will advise further action. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been scanned for the presence of computer viruses. ********************************************************************** -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
