What is the transport mechanism to the AIX box? FTP will read z/OS "textual" 
data in EBCDIC and can translate it to ASCII "on the fly" as it is sent to the 
AIX box. I do this all the time sending from z/OS 1.12 to an ASCII Linux 
system. sftp (transport via encrypted SSH) can also do EBCDIC to ASCII 
translation.

Since they are HSM migrated, you are stuck with doing an HSM recall. Now, the 
ftp process can do that as well. Although, thinking about it, I would first do 
the HSM recall to disk, then do the ftp; otherwise the ftp could possibly "time 
out" if HSM took too long to do the recall.



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> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of af dc
> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2012 10:34 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Convert data tape to ASCII format
> 
> Hello,
> I need to copy data from STK/9840 tape media (text sequential dsns) to
> disk
> on Ascii format. To send them to AIX. What is the best way of doing it
> ??
> Env is z/os 1.12
> 
> 1) recall dsns (they are hsm migrated)
> 2) running ditto to convert those dsns to ascii format
> 3) send those ascii files to AIX machine
> ??
> 
> Any hint is welcome, A.CEcilio

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