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. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN