I am considering trying to write a program on z/OS which can read a NETDATA file and write a tar file. NETDATA is the output format for the TSO TRANSMIT/XMIT and CMS SENDFILE commands. The program would convert from EBCDIC (CP037?) to ASCII (ISO8859-1), with UNIX LF line endings. The output would convert z/OS dataset names to lower case and convert the CMS file name to fn.ft.fm . I don't think I could handle z/OS PDSes or CMS MACLIBs. More thought is needed. Perhaps they could be a tar within a tar. I don't plan on using any compression or supporting zip files.
Does anybody else think this would be useful? The language would likely be HLASM or maybe Java. Java is more portable. If I get it working for a TSO generated file, I'll need someone to send me a CMS file. I don't have access to z/VM at work. -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
