Re: Mainframe to Midrange file transfer???? Tools?

I,ve heard from a package called INTERLINK for file transfer between IBM 3090 and UNIX/VAX machines. Or you can ask IBM or DIGITAL.

Maybe this can help you. Good luck.

On Tue, 28 Jan 1997 19:13:36 -0500, Peter Cumming <pcumming_at_ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>Does anyone know of any tools that can run on a mainframe (IBM) and pull
>data (extract) for transfer to a midrange (Unix) box in an efficient
>fashion?? Currently we have to write custom programs on our mainframe to
>extract data we want to a flat file. Then for each extract we must
>unpack any packed data (Comp-3) fields on the mainframe.
>Then we transfer the data from the Mainfrmae to the midrange and BCP it
>in to the database. We could also do a hyperchannel.
>
>Wonder if there is some better or quicker way or some product...
>
>Thanks for an email reply.
>
>Peter
Received on Fri Jan 31 1997 - 00:00:00 CET