don't know what you're trying to do with it, but for transport purposes, I run a utility on the mainframe to make a flatfile then xmit as text. no corruption when sent back to the mainframe if receiving file is pre-allocated with correct LRECL & RECFM. IEBUPDTE (or is it IEBCOPY?) or SAS Proc Source is what I use to unload the PDS.
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