Patent ID: 6886160

Claim:
A device for distributing a single mainframe program load module, when the receiver of the program load module does not have the program PCFORM, comprising: a sender programmer at the sender's site with a file transfer-enabled mainframe PC terminal for creating required JCL streams, for creating required datasets, for submitting required JCL streams, for creating the download sequential dataset records, for downloading the download sequential dataset to the PC and for creating PC-based data media to send to the receiver's site; a program load module at the sender's site to be delivered to the receiver's site; a download sequential dataset at the sender's site for storing the output of the program PCFORM; a program PCFORM at the sender's site for converting the sender's program load module to fixed length records of the download sequential dataset whose logical record length is equal to the block size of the sender's program load module library which is adjusted by the IBM linkage editor IEWL; a downloaded PC hard disk file at the sender's site for storing the downloaded content of the mainframe download sequential dataset; a receiver programmer at the receiver's site with a file transfer-enabled mainframe PC terminal for receiving the data from the sender, for creating required JCL streams, for creating required datasets, for uploading the received data from the PC to the mainframe, and for submitting required JCL streams; an upload sequential dataset at the receiver's site, whose logical record length is equal to the logical record length of the download sequential dataset at the sender's site, for storing the data uploaded from the PC at the receiver's site; and a destination load module library at the receiver's site for storing the program load module processed from the upload sequential dataset by the IBM utility programs IEBGENER and IEWL.