On Fri, 25 May 2007 19:17:12 -0500, Kenneth E Tomiak wrote: >On Fri, 25 May 2007 09:39:16 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >>> >>How do you round-trip and reconstitute an IEBCOPY-unloaded PDS on z/OS? >>I know it's possible; I've done similar as an experiment. But it's >>tedious and scarcely worth the effort. >> >Far too long ago for me to remember. I'll bet, since it was when IND$FILE was >my only option, I then ran it through TRSMAIN to get an FB file. At that point, >a binary file is a binary file. When I switched to TRANSMIT I wrote my own >rexx code to strip out the members on my PC. > Ah! TRSMAIN. I know that works. And I believe you can TRSMAIN a PDS directly, bypassing the IEBCOPY step. (PDSE, too?) Of course the data are opaque on the PC. I think the winner is TRANSMIT -- Isn't there a utility (CBT or PlanetMVS?) that unwinds TRANSMIT on a subset of workstations. Alas, I don't believe it's open source and in a language portable to workstations not using the ".EXE" format.
>Nowadays I run my own rexx code to take every member of non-loadlib PDSEs >and create a sequential dataset with an IEBUPDTE ./ ADD control card in front >of it. I then download in ASCII and I can open it with notepad. If I ftp it >back >up, I can either run it through IEBUPDTE or more often, I exclude all and >find './' in column one. From there I can pick and chose which members I want >to create in a PDSE. > Won't that fail spectacularly if the PDS contains members which resemble or are IEBUPDTE command streams? I deem it a design deficiency of IEBUPDTE that it has (AFAIK) no way to escape/protect/quote lines that resemble IEBUPDTE commands. >For a loadlib I use transmit. > Good for other things, too. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
