I know that you can define a file layout and CARLa can read a z/OS flat file.  My question is can it read a USS file?   And can it read it accross the z/Secure network?

If possible, I'd very much appreciate an example of how to do it?

Thank you,

Brent Brimacomb, CISSP

VP, Senior Information Security Engineer

zSeries Security Strategy

Hi Brent,

A CARLa sample for reading a USS file is the following:

deftype type=uss#
alloc type=uss# path='/home/user/text87.txt'
newlist type=uss#
sortlist recno record

I modified the 'alloc' statement to

alloc type=uss# path='/home/user/text84.txt' zsecnode=s84node

to read a USS file on a remote system but found that this is currently not supported.
The 'alloc ... zsecnode' documentation only hints at this by saying that
reading remote "system data or data sets" is possible, not mentioning "USS files".

Regards,

I know that you can define a file layout and CARLa can read a z/OS flat file.  My question is can it read a USS file?   And can it read it accross the z/Secure network?

If possible, I'd very much appreciate an example of how to do it?

Thank you,

Brent Brimacomb, CISSP

VP, Senior Information Security Engineer

zSeries Security Strategy