On Sun, 16 Aug 2020 00:50:28 -0400, Phil Smith III wrote:

>http://www.vmworkshop.org/HENSLER/ includes my MAILABLE EXEC, which uses this 
>technique to create self-extracting blobs wrapped in Rexx code to unpack them. 
>Alas, it's VM-only, but it illustrates the idea.
>
>This was useful back in the era when folks had a lot of problems getting 
>EBCDIC objects (especially executables) sent via email; less so nowadays, when 
>most people have VMARC.
> 
z/OS TSO RECEIVE has the useful FROMDSN and FROMDD options.  Has
CMS RECEIVE anything similar?  But there are the Pipelines 64DECODE
and DEBLOCK NETDATA filters which should be useful for this.  No
PIPELINES VMARC, AFAIK.

-- gil

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