Compress AS400 files

[Xavier JARDIN]

Hi,

I wish to send textual files AS400 (format CSV Excel) through e-mail
with Keyes Mail. The problem is the size of the files, on average a
sending made
3Mo whereas with WinZip on PC the size of the sending passes to
approximately
300Ko. Is it possible to compress starting from AS400 in a compatible
format
WinZip so that the recipient can uncompress the sending on his PC.

Xavier Jardin.

[Bob Lepp]

I'm pretty sure PKZIP has an AS/400 product for compressing files.
Bob

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[Dieter Bender]

Hi Bob,
use the java tool jar, it is part of the Java JDK on AS/400.
Dieter Bender

[Thomas Raddatz]

Xavier,

you may contact "menten EDV - Beratung" at http://www.menten-gmbh.de/.

They offer a tool named "gzip400" which may meet your requirements. Their
internet site is in English.

Thomas Raddatz, Germany.

Xavier JARDIN schrieb:

>
> Hi,
>
> I wish to send textual files AS400 (format CSV Excel) through e-mail
> with Keyes Mail. The problem is the size of the files, on average a
> sending made
> 3Mo whereas with WinZip on PC the size of the sending passes to
> approximately
> 300Ko. Is it possible to compress starting from AS400 in a compatible
> format
> WinZip so that the recipient can uncompress the sending on his PC.
>
> Xavier Jardin.

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[René van der Gracht]

Bob,

There is a PKZIP for the AS/400. We are using it. When I'll be back in the
office I will
give you (all) more information.

gr.

René

Bob Lepp wrote:

> I'm pretty sure PKZIP has an AS/400 product for compressing files.
> Bob
>
> Xavier JARDIN <xja...@sofice.fr> wrote in message
> news:388DB55A...@sofice.fr...

[Frank Healy]

René:

I recently downloaded the software and it looks like it doesn't work
with the IFS. Is this right?

Frank

[Larry Loen]

Xavier JARDIN wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I wish to send textual files AS400 (format CSV Excel) through e-mail
> with Keyes Mail. The problem is the size of the files, on average a
> sending made
> 3Mo whereas with WinZip on PC the size of the sending passes to
> approximately
> 300Ko. Is it possible to compress starting from AS400 in a compatible
> format
> WinZip so that the recipient can uncompress the sending on his PC.
>
> Xavier Jardin.

If you've installed Java (product JV1)
and the QShell (BOSS option), you should have the
ability to do this:

To zip try:

cd /yourdir
jar -cfM yourzip.zip *.txt

or whatever you need for a "file filter."

To see what you've got try:

jar -tf yourzip.zip

To extract, try:

jar -xf yourzip.zip

I uploaded a zip file created with the "to zip"
directions above and my PKZIP on my PC had no
trouble handling it. The options as I have
it seem to recurse directories, so everything
"under" /yourdir would be zipped and unzipped.

[Joel Eikenhorst]

Gzip and gunzip are the GNU utilities from the Free software
Foundation. You can request a copy that has been ported to the AS/400
from IBM's Partners in Developmet (PID) website:
http://www.as400.ibm.com/developer/porting/faq.html

[H. Sterken]

After reading this message I'm trying to use the jar-cmd on my V4R3-system,
but when I enter the following commands in QSHELL:
cd /
cd QDLS
cd HSTER
jar -cfM testjar.zip *.*
I get the following errors:
java.io.FileNotFoundException: 24091999.Y2K
java/io/FileInputStream.<init>(Ljava/lang/String;)V+34
(FileInputStream.java:55)
java/io/FileInputStream.<init>(Ljava/io/File;)V+5
(FileInputStream.java:75)

sun/tools/jar/Main.addFile(Ljava/util/zip/ZipOutputStream;Ljava/io/File;)V+181
(Main.java:301)

sun/tools/jar/Main.create(Ljava/io/OutputStream;[Ljava/lang/String;Lsun/tools/jar/Manifest;)V+104
(Main.java:258)
sun/tools/jar/Main.run([Ljava/lang/String;)Z+170 (Main.java:89)
sun/tools/jar/Main.main([Ljava/lang/String;)V+16 (Main.java:516)

The testjar.zip file is created with zero length. I've tried this in an
IFS-directory and get the same messages. Am I doing something wrong?

Henk Sterken
Unidek Bouwelementen

Larry Loen schreef:

> Xavier JARDIN wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I wish to send textual files AS400 (format CSV Excel) through e-mail
> > with Keyes Mail. The problem is the size of the files, on average a
> > sending made
> > 3Mo whereas with WinZip on PC the size of the sending passes to
> > approximately
> > 300Ko. Is it possible to compress starting from AS400 in a compatible
> > format
> > WinZip so that the recipient can uncompress the sending on his PC.
> >
> > Xavier Jardin.
>

[terry_...@my-deja.com]

I got the same problem. The weird thing was, to me, that is says
java.io.FileNotFoundException: 24091999.Y2K. Uh... it must have found
the file to come up with that message.

I really want this to work since I can't convince anyone to buy PKZIP
for the AS/400.

In article <38903E5D...@unidek.nl>,

Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.

[H. Sterken]

That's correct. The first file in /QDLS/HSTER is 24091999.Y2K.
So it finds the first file and than gives an FileNotFoundException.
I hope someone can shed some light on this.

terry_...@my-deja.com schreef:

[Peter]

Works great for me

from the working directory
jar -cfM testjar1.zip *.*

from a specific directory
jar -cfM testjar2.zip /home/peter/temp/*.*

from the qdls
jar -cfM testjar3.zip /qdls/peter/temp/*.*

from qsys
jar -cfM testjar4.zip /qsys.lib/peter.lib/TEST.FILE/TEST.MBR

but I had no luck when I tried to zip a save file :-(

In the shell you can use
pwd - check working directory
cd - change working directory
ls - list working directory

/Peter

In article <86ppc1$bno$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,

[H. Sterken]

I've just installed QSHELL-interpreter on our V4R4 test-AS/400 and jar works
perfectly.
It looks like the problem lies in the V4R3-version of QSHELL/jar.
As we're going to install V4R4 in the next couple of weeks my problem is
solved.

Henk Sterken
Unidek Bouwelementen

Peter schreef:

[René van der Gracht]

Frank,

Below the information you asked for:

PKZIP AS/400 of Ascent Solutions Inc. (ASI) is a high-performance data
compression software utility for the IBM AS/400. PKZIP AS/400 zips
AS/400
files with sizes of up to 4GB of uncompressed data and creates a
single archive
(compressed file) from multiple AS/400 files. PKZIP AS/400 consists
of two
main products: PKZIP and PKUNZIP.

Features & Benefits

Data reduction by 50-90%
Saves your communication costs for file transfer tremendous
Compatible with the industry standard PKZIP DOS 2.04g
Translates data to be compressed between EBCDIC and ASCII
Sophisticated 32-bit CRC guarantees the integrity of the files being
compressed
Ability to encrypt and decrypt data into a ZIP archive
Five different rates of compression: from superfast to terse

http://www.src.nl/softw/prof_pkzip400.htm
for more information or try

Ascent Solutions Inc. (ASI)

We use PKZIP version 3.6 (RISC)
PKZIP can only read OS/400 objects of type *FILE, with attributes PF
SRC, PF DTA and SAVF.
Other objects must first be unloaded into an OS/400 save file (SAVF) before
they can be processed by PKZIP.

It can work with IFS, just save it into a *savf. I think you also can use the
'client' zipper and
unzipper to do the job for you.

Regards,

René

Frank Healy wrote:

> René:
>
> I recently downloaded the software and it looks like it doesn't work
> with the IFS. Is this right?
>
> Frank
>
> René van der Gracht wrote:
> >
> > Bob,
> >
> > There is a PKZIP for the AS/400. We are using it. When I'll be back in the
> > office I will
> > give you (all) more information.
> >
> > gr.
> >
> > René
> >
> > Bob Lepp wrote:
> >
> > > I'm pretty sure PKZIP has an AS/400 product for compressing files.
> > > Bob
> > >
> > > Xavier JARDIN <xja...@sofice.fr> wrote in message
> > > news:388DB55A...@sofice.fr...

[Frank Healy]

Thanks for the info René.

[terry_...@my-deja.com]

I started to think the same thing... of course too late to suggest it.
Guess I don't get the credit then. :) I'm on V4R3 also. We are
probably upgrading soon... so guess we'll have 2 jobs that will continue
to be manual.

In article <3891565E...@unidek.nl>,

> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I wish to send textual files AS400 (format CSV Excel)
through e-
> > > mail
> > > > > > with Keyes Mail. The problem is the size of the files, on
> > average
> > > a
> > > > > > sending made
> > > > > > 3Mo whereas with WinZip on PC the size of the sending passes
to
> > > > > > approximately
> > > > > > 300Ko. Is it possible to compress starting from AS400 in a
> > > compatible
> > > > > > format
> > > > > > WinZip so that the recipient can uncompress the sending on
his
> > PC.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Xavier Jardin.
> > > > >

[David Shea]

If you're having space problems on your AS400, check out
http://www.arctools.com . It's a disk optimization utility that will help
you purge and/or archive your data, reorg your space, move stuff off to
tape, and keep track of when and how you archived it and also what tape(s)
you put it on.

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