On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 09:55:07 -0500, McKown, John wrote: > >Remember! that scp on z/OS does an EBCDIC to ASCII translation. If you need a >binary transfer, >you'll need to use sftp. > I've not tried sftp. I'd expect that sftp and scp are both variants of ssh, and the EBCDIC<->ASCII translation is intrinsic to the socket interface. Does z/OS sftp have a BINARY subcommand? Are you extrapolating too much from Co:z?
I used ssh rather than sftp or scp in the example I posted (I've enhanced it since) partly because of familiarity; partly it gives most control with least terminal interaction. Between two ASCII systems, I have done: ssh remote-host "cd wherever && tar -cf - ." | tar -xvf - With EBCDIC, I'd need an iconv in the pipe. I believe that if ssh (or kindred) needs to prompt for confirmation or password it will write the prompt to stderr and read the response from /dev/tty. This might work from native z/OS UNIX (USS), perhaps even from TSO OMVS. It's less likely from TSO or BPXWUNIX. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN