Re[2]: AS400 PKZIP: was: Tape question

[eric.delong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

     I tried to use it in a report archiving app and had numerous 
     problems with it. Machine exceptions (unresolved pointers), parms 
     that don't work as documented, and the record length limits all 
     posed problems for me. Eventually had to completely remove it. If I 
     had to imagine what Windows 2000 would be like on the AS400, I 
     imagine it to be just like PKZIP/400... 8P
     
     eric.delong@pmsi-services.com
     
     PS. I have not looked at any newer versions, so some of the 
     problems I saw may have been fixed by now.


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Subject: RE: AS400 PKZIP:  was: Tape question 
Author:  <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com> at INET_WACO
Date:    7/18/00 7:57 PM


It would stop me.  I was not aware of that limitation.  That would seem to 
disqualify the product.  How can that be?
     
Richard Jackson
mailto:richardjackson@richardjackson.net 
www.richardjacksonltd.com
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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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