HPNonStop Sysopts for OSS Disk and Tape File Copies

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Syntax

(TO) SYSOPTS =[“SET XLATE ON | YES | OFF | NO | table-name"] [“SET DATATYPE ASCII |BINARY”]

Description

specifies system operation parameters on OSS disk and tape file copies. It is an alternative way of specifying file creation attributes.

You can use HP NonStop File Utility Program (FUP) syntax to create HP NonStop-specific file options that are available through Sterling Connect:Direct syntax.

SYSOPTS are expressed as HP NonStop SET commands. There are two ways to express multiple SET command parameter:

  • SET precedes each parameter. For example:

    SYSOPTS=("SET parameter" "SET parameter" "SET parameter")

  • SET precedes the first parameter, and commas separate subsequent parameters. For example:

    SYSOPTS=(“SET parameter, parameter, parameter”)

Enclose each sysopts string in double quotation marks except when copying from Microsoft Windows to HP NonStop. For copies from Microsoft Windows to HP NonStop, enclose each SET parameter in single quotation marks and enclose the entire SYSOPTS string in double quotation marks. For example:

SYSOPTS="’SET parameter’ ’SET parameter’ ’SET parameter’"

Do not use continuation marks in the SYSOPTS parameter. Type the text in a continuous string, with blanks separating each subparameter.

For details on listed FUP SET commands, refer to the appropriate HP NonStop manual. The following commands are Sterling Connect:Direct for HP NonStop SET commands and are described only in the documentation set for Sterling Connect:Direct HP NonStop: SET [NO] BLOCKIO, SET [NO] LARGEIO, SET XLATE, SET SPOOLER, SET FAST.LOAD Y, SET FAST.LOAD.PRI, SET FAST.LOAD CPU, SET FAST.LOAD.SORTED Y, and SET SPOOLNUM.

SET parameter

commands define HP NonStop file attributes or special processing instructions for Sterling Connect:Direct HP NonStop. The SET commands follow in alphabetical order.

XLATE

indicates whether the file being transferred will be converted from either ASCII to EBCDIC or EBCDIC to ASCII.

If XLATE ON or XLATE YES is specified or the file being copied is a spooler file or an edit file (unstructured file, code 101), Sterling Connect:Direct HP NonStop will check the XLFILE for a table named DEFAULT. If the DEFAULT table is not in XLFILE, then Sterling Connect:Direct HP NonStop will use the standard English language ASCII/EBCDIC table as defined by HP NonStop.

If the file being copied is a spooler file or an edit file (unstructured file, code 101), XLATE does not need to be specified because these files are automatically translated.

  • ON | YES specifies whether text will be converted from either ASCII to EBCDIC or EBCDIC to ASCII, depending upon the copy direction.
  • OFF | NO ensures that text conversion does not occur during file transfer.
  • table-name is a 1-8 character name of a user-defined translation table. See the IBM Sterling Connect:Direct HP NonStop Administration Guide for further details on user-defined translation tables.

SET DATATYPE

specifies whether the source file being transferred is in ASCII or BINARY format.

To successfully transfer binary files from an OSS files system to either UNIX or Microsoft Windows, specify BINARY as the datatype.