Re: Getting source to old box

["James H H Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> We want to move source files from a V5R1M0 box to a V3R7M0 box.
> We have a SDLC connection so we can pass through.
> How can we get the source files from the new operating system box to the
> old operating system box?
>
> Can we FTP, if so what setup has to be done?
> Should we use SNADS, if so what setup is needed?

First choice would be to put everything into a save file, and FTP it from
one to the other. Or save it to tape, and physically move it to the other
box.

But you might not be able to make such a large backward jump (which is an
argument for doing your development on the oldest version of the OS that
you're ever likely to have to support). The fact that it's source you're
moving around, though, should give you another option: you could try
FTPing the source file itself into an empty source file on the V3R7
machine. That *should* work, and would bypass the prior release
constraints involved with tapes and save files.

But make sure an empty file exists on the target machine; otherwise, if
FTP has to create the file, it will create a flat file, and make a
(probably not very good) guess about record length.

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JHHL