From a co-worker; rearranged to chronological posting:
All,
I’ve come across a useful tool that lets you view and extract
members of a mainframe TSO XMIT file on your Windows PC. it’s called XMI
Explorer, and can be downloaded for free from https://www.xiframe.com/
It works the same way as the old XMIT manager for those of you who are familiar
with it. The XMIT manager installer will not install on a Win x64 system, but
this utility installs and runs without problem. Very useful for checking on
the contents of the CBT Tape files which are all in TSO XMIT format!
I said:
There's been some chatter on IBM-MAIN LISTSERV that XMIT Manager can
be installed on an older Win system and the products copied to Win x64.
Apparently only the installer is broken, not the payload.
And I've heard of unXmit, allegedly written in Java, so I looked to it
for my non-Win non-z platforms. It was *not* "write once; run anywhere!"
Perhaps it only has Eclipse entanglements, but I shied away from it.
May I re-post to IBM-MAIN? Attribution or not, at your preference.
BTW, I can fetch CBTTAPE .XMIT files to z/OS via Internet directly,
with no desktop entanglement.
He said:
Gil,
Please go ahead and repost to IBM main. I knew the problem
with XMIT Manager was the installer and not the utility itself, but the problem
is starting to become having access to a Win32 system to run it.
Cheers…
Which is why I look to a Win-free solution.
-- gil
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