> you can use two (or more) ways - one for "exact, but unreadable > copy", other for more readable copies, but not necessarily exact.
That is exactly what I do. ADRDSSU of everything gives you a perfect restore with all the attributes and so forth. You can terse it if you wish and bring it to and from a small system in binary. Then the source and JCL and similar files you also bring down member by member translated to "ASCII" (as FTP calls it -- please, no rants about code pages). Perfect for many things and "good enough" for others. You can satisfy "how did I do that before?" even if a few characters are corrupted, and worst case a few CHANGE commands makes everything right. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Radoslaw Skorupka Sent: Friday, January 29, 2021 3:22 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Inspecting and extracting from /OS transportable files on other platforms? I did it. There is no simple solution, not "one size fit all". Few remarks: 1. EBCDIC-ASCII conversion. It is crucial for text file, however sometimes record contain binary fields which should not be translated or the translation is quite different. 2. Programs. There is no big reason to migrate PDS libraries (program objects or load modules). 3. Source code. Why? It's not so obvoius. 4. Source code EBCDIC-ASCII translation. Example: I hate REXX translation. REXX use || characters while in CP852 it should be !!. Simple translation corrupts REXX code. C code is corrupted as well. 5. PDS/PDSE data. It is simple to download XMI files or just convert PDS(E) to directory of members. Why? 6. "Archival purposes" can be EASILY fulfilled with ADRDSSU DUMP "all files" and then XMIT and download. It is good archive, but it is readable under z/OS. Bad? This is the only 100% exact copy. And let's imagine, you can use two (or more) ways - one for "exact, but unreadable copy", other for more readable copies, but not necessarily exact. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
