November 2003
Intermediate to advanced
212 pages
6h 37m
English
book
S/390 PartnerWorld for Developers, ITSO/EFS Project EFS Systems on a Linux Base: Additional Topics
by Bill Ogden, Michael Ryan
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Chapter 6. Printers and readers 83
6.5 Emulated card reader
You can create z/OS jobs while working in Linux, using a Linux editor and working in ASCII.
You can send the jobs (in the form of a JCL deck) to z/OS (or another S/390 operating
system) through an emulated card reader. There is not much need for this with z/OS, but an
equivalent operation for VSE/ESA might be more useful.
The easiest way to do this is to use the hotrdr.sh shell script provided with FLEX-ES. It
automates the more detailed steps needed to do the function, including ASCII to EBCDIC
conversion and a number of FLEX-ES CLI commands.
There are several steps involved in setting this up:
The operating system must have a card reader defined. (The IODF for the AD system has
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