It looked like there were intact BDWs and RDWs. Does anybody have a link for the IEBCOPY unload format?
If there was translation then all bets are off. If they were binary transfers then CR, LF and NL should not be issues. Recovering load libraries requires recovering directory data, not just the member itself. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Michael Stein [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2021 8:27 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Format PDS unloaded on an CD On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 04:59:19AM -0700, Hilario Garcia wrote: > Hi Mike, Thank you very much for the information that you have sent me to > be able to recover files (mostly PDS) but there are also data files and PDS > LOADLIB. I'm going to get to work on it as you have indicated. The work is > very laborious and there are about 30 files with an undetermined number of > members, in addition to some files with data. I suppose that there is no > other way to recover the data since the format and the method in which it > was downloaded from Z / OS is unknown. The format for the PDS you supplied is known, it's iebcopy unload format. How much it's mangled isn't clear, it would take looking at more of the file (and/or other files) to see. It's likely all the PDS source FB files could be recovered as they are unlikely to have binary data which would typically get mangled in them. It's certainly possible that any binary data isn't recoverable like load module libraries or raw binary data. Even FB source data can have a surprise or two. I've seen a "not" sign get translated on download into a UTF-8 "not" sign -- this made the 80 byte record longer than 80... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
