Hello Brian,
Am 11.01.2025 um 05:50 schrieb Brian_Westerman via groups.io <Brian_Westerman@...>:
Does anyone have a best method to transfer from z/OS to Hercules.
I assume you'r talking about copying data(sets) between your Hercules guest OS and host OS? Host OS being the operating system you run Hercules on. We don't know about your specific setup. :-)
One method is to use ADRDSSU to backup the dasd to a dataset, then TERSE that dataset to another tersed file and send it to your PC in binary format and then send that to Hercules via FTP also in binary format, then unterse it under Hercules, and then restore it via ADRDSSU, but I'm thinking there must be some better way to do this.
Nut sure what you mean by the set "send it to your PC and then send that to Hercules".
What is the greater goal you want to achieve? Knowing that could help us to help you.
The above process takes a lot of time and I have "heard" that there are other ways that work well, but don't know what they are.
You can always do like in the olden days and use magnetic tape to transfer data.
Simply backup the dataset(s) onto what occurs to your guest OS as a tape drive. There need to be some preparations on your host OS side, though. Precisely: You need to do the Hercules equivalent to walking to the tape drive and insert/load a tape reel. Although that can be automated more or less easily, depending on your host OS.
In any case, you can transfer, archive or whatever said tape file, and easily reattach to the same or another Hercules instance to copy the data back.
:wq! PoC
