In batch, you could: 1. Use DFSORT/ICETOOL to read the files, convert binary/packed fields to human-readable (don't forget the sign!), and write it to a temporary file which is passed to part 2
2. Use FTP with "PUT '//DD:ddname' somefilename" to write the temporary file to some FTP server. EBCDIC => ASCII will happen "automagically". Depending upon how much space the file server has, you could potentially transfer all of the critical tape files first, and then burn CDs afterward. I'd use CA-1 or whatever tape management system you have, with some reporting tool to determine the sizes of the files to be moved, and also to weed out the ones which haven't been used in a long long time = we use SAS with the output of CA-1's TMSDATA utility for this kind of thing, but you can user other stuff. You may find that you have a lot of very small files, and in fact may be able to fit a lot of them on one CD. Another alternative would be to write the output of step 1 to USS diretories, then do an FTP 'Get' from them to the PC with the CD burner, but I assume management wouldn't want to allocate permanent space for the project? Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
