Chris,

Not a bad idea.  Only problem is the extract program was written
by the same third party vendor which is causing this "Another
one bites the dust" project.  Ummm....gotta be careful here.....
real touchy......

There have been some problems in the data migration from the
3k to the 9k.  Because of this we do not change programs,  jcl
nor environments from what is supplied.  The whole business
of going to tape instead of disc is ahhhh........problematical.

If someone else wants to give it a road test then I will be all ears.

James Trudeau

The opines expressed is mine not de honchos

> ----------
> From:         Chris Bartram
> Sent:         Thursday, March 19, 1998 10:44 AM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re[3]: 3k to 9k via tape
>
>  In <[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> > <snip>
> > > > ... The output file created by the extract program on the 3000
> > > > is 23GB.  ...
> > <snip>
> > > > So I suppose I can change the disc-to-tape file equate and call it
> > > > a labelled tape?  (last time I worked in tape and labels was on
> > > > MPE/V)  This would create a file of multiple tapes but I am totally
> > > > unclear as to what will happen when this file hits the 9000.
> > <snip>
>
> I have no idea if this'll actually work, but have you tried doing your
> extract in the (posix) shell, and perhaps piping the output from the
> extract to compress or pkzip, which would then write out only the
> compressed data file? Seems like it oughta work (in theory) - assuming
> you can run the extract process in the shell...
>
>        -Chris Bartram
>
>