Frequently discussed at SHARE, check out Charles Prineas' "V The File Viewer"... (30 day free trial/$20 for 6 years support)... a superb utility that supports AWS and XMIT files on the Windows desktop along with various EBCDIC file formats in general. The following information is taken from the help text: "XMIT and AWS files are uncompressed archives (containing multiple files) that are used in IBM mainframe environments. V will treat these files just like other supported archives (such as ZIP, RAR and CAB). That is, when you double click on one of these archives, you will see a listing of the files they contain. You can view a file by simply double-clicking on it. You can also extract any of the files just as you would extract files from a ZIP archive.Save as ASCII optionBy default, when files are extracted from XMIT/AWS archives, they are extracted in EBCDIC format (ie, exactly as they are stored in the archive). If the Save as ASCII option is enabled in the Extract dialog, the file will be saved as ASCII (with trailing spaces removed from all lines)." http://www.fileviewer.com/Download.html Bill Smith William J. SmithSr. Consulting z/OS Systems Engineer
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