Zipping Files using NDM process

ganeshcet · New User Joined: 25 Jan 2007 Posts: 11 Location: New York

dear all
I need any tips/solution for the issue I am facing. We are transmitting a File from Mainframe side to Unix server through NDM. the file which we are sending is Unzipped . But they need it in Zipped format.
Is there any way in the NDM card we can code parameters so that files get zipped as I dont want to add another separate zip step and create the file (PKZIP utility)

Note I coded
&SYSOP02=':DATATYPE=BINARY:XLATE=NO:STRIP.BLANKS=NO:'

Please let me know.

superk · Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 11:39 pm

My thoughts on this topic:

The process of zipping data is both CPU and I/O intensive. I think it would be best of you performed that process in the batch environment where it belongs, rather than in the CONNECT:Direct (i.e. NDM) environment. I think it would be better to have another job that runs prior to the NDM job to peform the PKZIP process on the data.

That being said, the only way that I can see to logically include a PKZIP execution within the Process is to code a RUNTASK step, obviously before the target COPY step, that can execute your PKZIP program. A RUNTASK, as opposed to a RUNJOB, is the only way to keep your Process running asynchronously.

Devzee · Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 2:16 am

Any reason of why you want to zip the file before NDM?

Is it because the files are huge size?

ganeshcet · New User Joined: 25 Jan 2007 Posts: 11 Location: New York

files are big in size .. i have done a PKZIP process now and did NDM..the file is transmitted but the data is unreadable format from their side.
The file contains only alpha numeric and number no comp 3 fields..

&SYSOP02=':DATATYPE=BINARY:XLATE=NO:'
this wat i tried and
&SYSOP02=':DATATYPE=TEXT:XLATE=NO:STRIP'

Devzee · Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 10:52 am

You can try this...

there is COMPRESS option in NDM, you can try this to send huge files without ZIPping.

dick scherrer · Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 4:54 pm

Hello,

If you "zip" the file on the mainframe, the transfer must be done in binary. If will not matter that the file contains only text data before zipping. The zipped file is all binary.

Does the target system have ftp running? You might try an ftp to prove the file is usable, then continue with the NDM attempt if ftp will not fill your requirement. The ftp transfer would need to specify binary as the transfer mode.