Forgot to mention, you really need to be sure that the data on z/OS is "textual". That basically means that it could be successfully printed out on a normal printer. It cannot contain "binary" information. Why? Because if you do an EBCDIC to ASCII translate on the "binary" data, the result is just plain unusable.
There are ways to translate the EBCDIC textual data to ASCII textual data on z/OS. But I don't see why anybody would really want to do this (excepting maybe Gil <grin>). I'm sure Gil may reply as well. He does a lot of z/OS and Solaris stuff. And, like AIX, Solar is ASCII based. He might even explain how to use NFS to do the transport between z/OS and AIX. I seem to have a mental block on doing NFS. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of McKown, John > Sent: Monday, October 15, 2012 10:50 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Convert data tape to ASCII format > > 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. > > > > -- > John McKown > Systems Engineer IV > IT > > Administrative Services Group > > HealthMarkets(r) > > 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 > (817) 255-3225 phone * > [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com > > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or > proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please > contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the > original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products > underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, > Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life > Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance > Company.SM > > > -----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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
