In a recent note, McKown, John said: > Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 09:09:12 -0500 > > > -----Original Message----- > > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Charles Mills > > Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 8:54 AM > > > > The question is: does anyone know of a tool that will get > > non-character > > (won't survive translation to ASCII and back) file from MM to > > CM? It seems > > 2) On "MM", get to a UNIX shell prompt (OMVS from TSO) and do: > uuencode filename <filename >filename.uuencode > I experimented with this technique a couple years ago. (IBM-MAIN, Nov. 2004) Sample sent privately to CM. Even this might have code page sensitivities.
> 7) In a UNIX shell (or BPXBATCH) > uudecode <filename.uuencode > BPXBATCH worked for me. But I have a full OMVS segment. Might work with default user. > Note that the resulting file is named what you said in the > uuencode in step 2. > I changed it in the "begin pathname" statement to "/dev/fd1" So could pipe directly into "pax -r" > 8) Now copy the "filename" to an MVS sequential file. OGET should work. > > 9) do a TSO RECEIVE INDATASET(...) to restore the contents of the PDS. > Or ALLOCATE INDD to the UNIX path and RECEIVE INDD(). > 10) make sure the client approves of the above. > The hard part. Can Charles bill for the admin effort? -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html