Cecil,
   Are your IBM people SURE there are no FTP capabilities available?
We are doing transfers to an IBM mainframe from an HP3000 and visa
versa.  (This is a fairly recent development however, the IBM FTP
implementation is fairly new).
   Most operating systems now have FTP implementations, including IBM.
If you can get FTP for IBM, you can install a 100MB network card on your
HP3000 and go for it!

> Brenda Peckham
Pacific Life
My opinions are my own and in no way reflect those of Pacific Life.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ceceil Barbarino [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 1999 7:44 AM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      File transfer between Mainframe & HP3000
>
> Hello (this is a long one please bare with me):
>
> Is anyone out there familiar with a Bus-Tech Datablaster??? We
> currently
> have this set up between our Mainframe and HP 3000/997/500 when we do
> a
> 'blast' from the Mainframe to the HP it is painfully slow - we are in
> a
> quandry we have to pass a 18,000,000 record file from the Mainframe to
> the
> HP and we are looking for ways to get this process to work faster.
> Unfortunately there are no FTP capabilities on the Mainframe.  So we
> are
> stuck with the datablaster.
>
> I have been trying a multitude of options, and my mainframe people
> keep
> telling me if I can increase my 'blocking factor' the process should
> go
> faster, I keep explaining to them that the HP doesn't really care
> about
> blocking factor. After more discussion, I was told to set my REC= to
> the
> blocking factor on the Mainframe; ok, I can do that, of course what
> happens
> next is 'EXTENT SIZE EXCEEDS MAXIMUM'  if I don't use the DISC= on my
> FCOPY
> the command works, but defaults to the 1023 file size.
>
> I've included the JCL from the job that runs on the HP, this runs
> simultaneously with a job on the Mainframe to get the file
> transferred. If
> anyone knows anything, well you will be helping a truly frazzled human
> being!
>
> Thanks,  Ceceil Barbarino
>
> HP Job:
> !JOB CBCONV2,MGR.SGAII;OUTCLASS=LP,1
> !COMMENT   ***  ONE SHOT CONVERSION FILE BLAST ROUTINE ****
> !COMMENT   TRANSFER OF FILES AS IT IS BEING TRANSLATED
> !COMMENT   FROM EBCDIC TO ASCII
> !COMMENT   This process is using the mainframe block size
> !COMMENT   as the record length.
> !TELLOP
> !TELLOP MAKE SURE THE MAINFRAME PROCESS IS STARTED
> !TELLOP
> !TELLOP
> !PURGE CBCONV3.CBARBAR1
> !FILE BLAST;DEV=40;REC=-32618,1,F,ASCII
> !BUILD CBCONV3.CBARBAR1;REC=-32618,1,F,ASCII;DISC=10000000
> !FCOPY FROM=*BLAST;TO=CBCONV3.CBARBAR1
> !TELLOP
> !TELLOP  BLAST PROCESS COMPLETE.
> !TELLOP
> !EOJ
> ______________
>
> Mainframe: