RE: AS400 PKZIP: was: Tape question

It would stop me.  I was not aware of that limitation.  That would seem to
disqualify the product.  How can that be?

Richard Jackson
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-----Original Message-----
From: Don [mailto:dr2@cssas400.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 7:52 PM
To: Richard Jackson
Cc: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: AS400 PKZIP: was: Tape question



Richard,

be aware that the ASi PKZIP product for the 400 has record length
constraints.  It will ZIP a 1000 byte record, but when you unzip it you'll
only get I think 128bytes of your record...the remainder ends up in teh
bit bucket...  This is a BIG show stopper for alot of folks...




On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Richard Jackson wrote:

> There is a PKzip application that you can buy for the as400.  Someone else
> will know if it can unTAR a TAR.  A tar is a collection of uncompressed
Unix
> stream files.
>
> If this will happen once and the files aren't too big, I would ask the
> vendor to send the data as an Email attachment.  Process the TAR on the PC
> then upload it to the 400 and use copy from stream file to get it into a
> database file.
>
> If you have to get it on tape, I think you want EBCDIC coding, fixed
length,
> blocked records.  It is easy to convert ASCII to EBCDIC.  Unblocked data
> just takes up a lot of space.  However, converting from variable length to
> fixed length is a real pain unless the format matches one of the
conversion
> types on one of those really cool CPY* commands I have seen noted here but
> forgot.
>
> Richard Jackson
> mailto:richardjackson@richardjackson.net
> www.richardjacksonltd.com
> Voice: 1 (303) 808-8058
> Fax:   1 (303) 663-4325
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Pamela Phillips
> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 1:26 PM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Tape question
>
>
> I know nobody wants to hear about a 9347, but we can't get rid of ours
quite
> yet. A vendor sends us data on reels, and as you can guess we have had a
lot
> of problems reading the tapes. The only other common medium between us
> appears to be 8mm. We have progressed to the point where we have a test
tape
> that we can dump successfully.  The dump shows the data is ASCII, and that
> it
> was encoded with the UNIX tar utility.
> How do we get the file off the tape? I searched the archives, and the only
> solution I could find involved jumping the data through several hoops to a
> PC
> so we could un-tar it using winzip. That would mean pushing it back onto
the
> 400 where the programs that need the data sit.
> Is there such a thing as TAR/400? Or what should we ask our vendor do that
> will give us a tape we can read just a little more easily?
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