Hi John. Ok for dcb consideration, I apologize to you. I semplified all to "variable" because outside, most of times, datalenght of ASCII file is not fixed. We fix data for "our" programs, depending on needs and language(and this is also true under other os).
Data is sent to the external server in ASCII [locsite SBD=(IBM-1047,IBM-850)] and the tgz(made using OpenSSH) returns and then shared in BINARY. All our data files are ASCII. File tgz is stored in a gdg and transferred to other machines unix and win with different tools(ftp/thema) (and the first machine, where I make tgz, that share data unzipped too). I dont' know if there is a better solution at the same cost. I propably took the wrong way analizing problem starting from conversion from dsname to filename, sorry. I remembered(after) an old installation with ZIP390 that makes(perhaps exactly) what I said but it's not free so I can't ask for it. There is another eligible tool "Info-Zip" that's free and seems to work on OS/390(not sure on z/OS, we have 1.10) but in each case is unavailable for dowload. Regards. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
