XMIT is not supported on all platforms. Other formats, e.g., tar, zip, are nigh near universal.
FTP of a PDS won't preserve all of the data. Does Info-Zip include all of the directory information? Also, FTP raises the issues of binary data and code pages. BTW, what do you use to label your USB thumb drives? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Brian Westerman [brian_wester...@syzygyinc.com] Sent: Friday, January 29, 2021 3:36 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Inspecting and extracting from /OS transportable files on other platforms? I think I would use transmit format for transporting things between systems, it's easily transportable and common no matter where you go and is even usable on a desktop PC. The other thing you can do (which I personally do) is simply FTP the PDS's and sequential files directly to your PC (on a USB drive) in ASCII format. I do this weekly, rotating the encrypted USB drive that I have on my keychain so that if it's broken or lost (that's why I encrypt), I can just get the previous one. My USB drives are pre-encrypted with Bitlocker so I really don't have to do much (ever). Previously I used to use those little USB drives with the combination lock built in to them, but they are very unreliable (and slow). So now, when fast USB drives go on sale at Amazon, I always buy several. I like the sandisk 256GB ones because a) they are fast, and more importantly b) they have a lifetime warranty. I have a batch file that I run to do this. I plug in my USB drive and start the batch file and go get a diet coke. I'm thinking about moving the process to one of the ruggedized external NVMe drives. I'm currently testing the new Sabrent 2TB one and it's VERY fast (1Gb+/sec) and is small enough to easily fit in a pocket. Plus being ruggedized it's waterproof and drop-proof (so far). The sandisk drives typically load at around 140MB/s, but the Sabrent drive is almost 10 times faster. The reason I want 2TB is that I would like to keep a whole Disaster recovery system on that drive (DF/DSS unloaded virtual tapes). At the faster speed, it's actually not a bad process, I just need to work out the kinks a little bit more so that I can automate it. Brian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
