[Info-vax] Copying savesets over DECnet

[Hein RMS van den Heuvel]

On Wednesday, August 26, 2020 at 7:33:10 PM UTC-4, arca... at gmail.com wrote:
> On Wednesday, 26 August 2020 23:53:03 UTC+1, Stephen Hoffman wrote: 
> 
> Thank you to you and to Jim for reminding me of SET RMS/NET. With that the first saveset has copied across successfully.
> > FTP, if TCP/IP Services has been installed and configured, and the FTP 
> > client and server are enabled on the systems involved.
> Yes, but I don't have the space to stage the data locally so I need to stream it off to another system somehow. With DECnet I can do that but with TCP/IP I can't.

If you could stage the tape to local, and your OpenVMS is from this century, then you could also temporarily use SET FILE/ATR=(MRS=XXX,LRL=XXX)  where XXX is a value like 4096 or 1024. Set back on destination.

Increasing the network buffer is indeed the right solution.  RTFH?

$ help/mess/fac=rms netbts
:
 User Action:  Increase the size of the network buffer to accommodate the
:
                maximum record size in the remote file. The default system
                setting for the SYSGEN RMS_DFNBC (network block count)
                parameter is 8,
:

Cheers,
Hein