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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories DFSMS DSS
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 5, 2016

RELATED IDEAS

Allow DSS to produce easily transportable dumps

Currently DFDSS does not produce backup or dump output in a form that can be easily transmitted across the network with normal basic FTP clients (e.g. Linux, Windows) and servers. The dump normally has to be further processed by TRSMAIN or XMIT before sending via ftp causing a considerable increase in time and space requirements.

If this is not done and the coorresponding TRSMAIN unpack (or RECEIVE) performed at the receiving end, the dump will not be
processed by DSS at the receving end. This seems to be caused by the short block at the start of the dump which is written by DSS. There may be other reasons.

This problem could be simply fixed by DSS writing standard FBS records.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     Mar 3, 2022

    FTP FTP/S have become industry standards for moving data, like this example, for many years now. There are already the challenges of record type and ebcdic/ascii/binary conversion so why not make the output of dump data more formatted and easier to work with. It's great that there are tools to format the data, but why? Why go through the extra steps wasting time and resources when there are more efficient ways to do things.

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