How to get a file for testing from production to test region

bob · New User Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 1

how to get a file for testing from production to test region

guptae · Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 6:49 pm

Hi Bob,

U can xmit ur file from prod to test region.

kanak · Moderator Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 252 Location: India

if u have read access to the file then submit a SORT job...use SORT = COPY or go to file aid option 3 and then 3 ...copy dataset...give prod file name as from and test file to file...and get it copied..if u need sort Job for copying then either u can search or u can write back...

srinivasulureddy · New User Joined: 25 Jan 2007 Posts: 1 Location: chennai

Hi Bob,

you can NDM ur file from prod to test region.you have to give sending node as production region and the recieving node as testing region

gundluru_sreedevi · New User Joined: 24 Jan 2007 Posts: 1 Location: Mumbai

By using File-Aid option 3.3 you can copy file data from Production to testing. Or you can use sort=copy command

vin12pr · New User Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 56

Sometimes the production region and the test regions will be different.In those situations you can do a Ftp of the file so that you can use the copy of the production data in the test.

iknow · Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 8:16 pm

Hi Bob,

You have two options to do that,

1) Make use of FTP to transfer your Prod file to Test file

2) Make use of NDM to transfer your files.

Please let us know if you need any other information.

iknow · Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 12:11 pm

Hi Bob,

Here's the code that will send the file to Test from Production region.

1) Using FTP

sasidhar001 · New User Joined: 14 May 2006 Posts: 3 Location: Bangalore

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 6:23 pm

Hi,

Perhaps you got your answer, still would like to add the following:

1. For production datasets, you need to get a proper access to the DSN you need to use in you testing. Get in touch with some senior at your site to know the exiting process available.

2. As suggested, if your testing is in some other LPAR (Testfing Region) FTP, XCOM, or NDM are some of the available methods to trasfer your test file.

dick scherrer · Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 7:21 pm

Hello,

Before transferring the file via one method or another, i'd suggest checking if there is some shared dasd (accessable to both systems) and simply write the data on the shared dasd. If this is possible, the data need be written only once.

If there is no shared dasd or you are not allowed to use it, then the transfer methods are necessary.

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 3:52 pm

acevedo · Active User Joined: 11 May 2005 Posts: 344 Location: Spain

fwiw, the question was posted on Wed Oct 04, 2006 4:05 pm, and this is the only post from bob.

dick scherrer · Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 7:15 pm

Hi Anuj,

The easiest way is to talk with your storage admin people.

Some places have a "dasd map" that shows which dasd is on which lpar and which is shared, but with the amount of dasd in many places, it is not feasible any more.

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 2:23 pm

Thanks Dick.

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Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:57 am