MVS archive datasets are supported by the PAX command. The first paragraph of 
the MAN PAX page says the archive can be HFS file or MVS dataset. I only have 
access to the EFGLOBE.COM system so it may now say something different but 
along the same lines.

Jon Perryman



>________________________________
> From: Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com>
>
>
>On 2014-01-17 07:43, van der Grijn, Bart (B) wrote:
>> 
>> z/OS in question is z/OS 1.12
>> Should have clarified this in my original note, but I'm not trying to write 
>> to a 'unix' file, I'm trying to write to a MVS dataset allocated to a 
>> DDName. Using a dataset name in the pax command works fine, but I want to 
>> use a DDName so that I can code RELEASE or write to tape. 
>>  
>Even if what you're trying to do happens to succeed, it's
>unsupported, and IBM will give you no assistance if it fails
>in the future.
>

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