When the files were offloaded were they a seqential dataset or a PDS file? The answer to that question will determine the response.
George George Rodriguez Specialist, Systems Programmer IT-Operations Office - (561) 357-7652 Mobil - (561) 707-3496 School District of Palm Beach County 3348 Forest Hill Blvd. Room B332 West Palm Beach, FL. 33409-5869 Sent by Blackberry from the Palm Beach County School District ----- Original Message ----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> Sent: Fri May 02 05:40:56 2008 Subject: File format for an unloaded partitioned data set? -------Original message follows---------- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main From: Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 02:46:47 +0000 Local: Thurs, May 1 2008 10:46 pm Subject: File format for an unloaded partitioned data set? I have a few unloaded partitioned data sets dating back to the 70's. I'd like to extract some members from them (on a Linux system). Are there any tools for this? Is there any documentation about this file format? -- hendrik ----------end of message------------ What format are these unloaded PDS files? If they are in iebcopy unloaded xmit format, one way to do this would be to use the Hercules dasdload utility to create a virtual DASD volume (awsckd format) and load your xmit files onto it, and then use the dasdpdsu utility to extract members from the datasets. See http://www.hercules-390.org/hercload.html#PDS However, I don't think xmit format existed in the 1970's, so maybe your PDS are unloaded in iehmove format? If this is the case you could install the Turnkey system http://www.bsp-gmbh.com/turnkey/ which is a complete working MVS 3.8 system for Linux and Windows containing everything you need to load and process these files. Regards, Roger Bowler http://perso.wanadoo.fr/rbowler Hercules "the people's mainframe" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------- Under Florida law, e-mail addresses are public records. If you do not want your e-mail address released in response to a public records request, do not send electronic mail to this entity. Instead, contact this office by phone or in writing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
