Thanks, That was the original question. Most of our clients use PKZIP so (originally) it was a question of whether or not it was a problem with the INFO-ZIP software or the installation or the method of transfer. In this case, it turned out to be that we were trying to take a DASD volume that was built under a Hercules (MVS 3.8) system and after conversion and transmitting, load and use it on a Z/OS system. Normally that is not a problem, but (apparently) when you use Shadow volumes, you can't built the image the same way, (you end up with the problem that we ran into).
(in retrospect) It would have probably saved a lot of time and effort to get new copies of INFO-ZIP, but there were a number of other datasets on that particular volume and the original XMIT format copy of INFO-ZIP that were also needed on the other end, so we thought things were safe. I have performed that type of transfer many times before, but never with volumes that were quite so heavily shadowed (there were 11 separate shadow files) In this case, "saving time" ended up costing more time. :( Some day, I hope there will be FTP for the Hercules based MVS system and this type of issue won't even be a bad memory any more. Brian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
