The HxD hex file viewer on Windows can view and show EBCDIC characters. One can use that utility to decode the internal format. If you format the HxD screen to show characters as EBCDIC in the edit window you can observe whether it follows the XMIT format or some other format. XMIT format will have some control literals like "INMRnn" embedded in the EBCDIC text.
https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/ Hilario, is it possible / permissible for you to share one of those files on a file-share website somewhere so that one of the list participants could try to view it and help you determine the inner format? Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2021 2:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Format PDS unloaded on an CD If the content via notepad is readable (ASCII) then it's likely that the files weren't transferred binary, and that some important info for XMIT (or whatever) is lost. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On > Behalf Of Seymour J Metz > Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2021 10:59 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Format PDS unloaded on an CD > > If it's XMIT format then you can do a binary transfer to an FB LRECL > 80 dataser and use RECEIVE. There's also at least one XMIT manager > that runs on windoze. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://mason.gmu.edu/*smetz3__;fg!!JmPEg > BY0HMszNaDT!- > zJV1Ap5UsXU3SFwtB4ieDGbctxysnAk90z7OS4ovOSafsNJWib5-Yp8nwGzPA$ > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on > behalf of Hilario Garcia [libr...@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2021 1:12 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Format PDS unloaded on an CD > > 811 / 5000 > Resultados de traducción > I have a CD with download of several PDS files. The person who > generated it is dead and the system where these files were has died > and it cannot be download again. > I don't know how these files were obtained (eg: DFDSS, IEBCOPY, > AMATERSE, XMIT, IND $ FILE, FTP ...). Viewing the content of these > files with Notepad, the PDS directory appears in the first registers > and control blocks throughout the file. I also view the source code of > the PDS files but it is not aligned. > I have the need to recover these files and after many attempts with > different methods I have not been able to load them in usable PDS > format for the Z / OS. > > Can someone give me some idea or procedure to try to recover said PDS's? > > Thank you very much in advance. > > Kind Regards. > > Hilario -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
