On 2015-12-16 17:54, Pinnacle wrote: > On 12/16/2015 7:41 PM, Leonard Sasso wrote: >> Hello ! >> Anyone know of a product (besides Data21's ZIP/390 Product), that can >> "extract" a file(s) from a TAR file on a IBM Mainframe - z/OS 2.1 ? > > Len, > > You don't need one, you can unspin the tarball in Unix System Services, > either via OMVS, ISPF 3.17, or BPXBATCH. > No, you *do* need one, but tar is that one. I don't know of "unspin". (Is 3.17 savvy to filename extensions, like some desktop systems?)
Or pax. If you're afflicted by the EBCDIC curse, pax has options to translate ASCII to EBCDIC. (Doesn't that feel like swimming upstream?) Be sure to transfer the .tar file in BINARY. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
