You are saying that these datasets are all printable reports, etc. When you transfer a printable report containing form control characters to a different system, you will not be able to re-print this report correctly (with proper forms control) on a system unless you have a program that can convert mainframe forms control to something the printer can understand. If it's important for you to keep these reports in a format that allows proper viewing of each page and also proper printing, I recommend you convert each dataset into a PDF-file (and then FTP the PDF file in binary format to the destination system). There's a free program available, TXT2PDF: http://cmtk3.webring.org/l/rd?ring=dinos;id=30;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Elbdsof tware%2Ecom%2Fxmitip%2Ehtml Optionally, you can create each report on a simulated green-bar paper. Look in the options for TXT2PDF.
Regards, Ulrich Krueger -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of af dc Sent: Monday, October 15, 2012 9:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Convert data tape to ASCII format Hi John, yes, all data are text based, reports, listings. This 2 step approach will be the best one, due to the recall time. Many thx,A,Cecilio On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 4:56 PM, McKown, John <[email protected] > wrote: > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
