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
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