Terse header version not recognized : 81

[NickETH]

Hi, tried to unterse a File for Windows from the IBM download page. Trows an error. C:\Temp\IBM-Terse>java -jar tersedecompress-5.0.0.jar Updatemanager-WinX64.exp Updatemanager-WinX64.exe Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: Terse header version not recognized : 81 at org.openmainframeproject.tersedecompress.TerseHeader.CheckHeader(TerseHeader.java:119) at org.openmainframeproject.tersedecompress.TerseDecompresser.create(TerseDecompresser.java:32) at org.openmainframeproject.tersedecompress.TerseDecompress.process(TerseDecompress.java:100) at org.openmainframeproject.tersedecompress.TerseDecompress.main(TerseDecompress.java:113) What is the problem here? BR, Nick

[jmertic]

This project is in Emeritus status and no longer maintained. Let us know if you would have interest in taking over maintainership. Thank you.

[alexgubanow]

Hello @NickETH , is the file you have tried to unterse coming from https://public.dhe.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/client/updatemgr/ ?

[NickETH]

Almost. I tried this one: https://public.dhe.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/client/v8r1/Windows/autodeploy/v8115/8.1.15.2-TIV-TSMBAC-WinX64.exp But i think, that is the same file... Thanks for having an eye on it

[andrew890]

This seems unlikely to be a TERSE format file? TERSE is an IBM compression format used for mainframe datasets, created using the AMATERSE utility. Support on non-mainframe platforms is rare, hence this open source implementation to decompress datasets. A Windows client related file seems unlikely.

[alexgubanow]

AMATERSE fails to unterse and if you look at file in hex, it is full of ascii and windows, seems to be an archive, but not PACK or SPACK for sure.