On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 17:50:47 -0800, Schwarz, Barry A wrote: >If anyone has installed SAS 9.2 using a PC to read the DVDs followed by using tar to prepare the "depot" for ftp to the mainframe, would you please tell me how to get around the z/OS 1.11 tar limitation of 100 characters in a path name. I have tried both -O and -X to no avail. > z/OS does not have a limitation of 100 characters in a path name if the -U option is specified. But the -U option is only needed when creating the tar file on z/OS. The USTAR format, which allows longer path names, is automatically recognized when tar on z/OS reads a tar file in USTAR format. Your problem may be the tar command on the PC not producing a tar file in USTAR format.
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