If still on the PC, transfer in binary again. (high odds of success). If only on the mainframe, and it was transferred with translation (ASCII->EBCDIC), then download to PC with translation (EBCDIC->ASCII), then back to the mainframe in Binary. (suspect you may have some drop out errors).
On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 9:35 AM, Jerry Paper <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > this one is for the old-timers on the list (I guess :). > A colleague has made a logical data set DUMP of important data and downloaded > to his PC in binary (by mistake, without additional steps). As expected, > after uploading from PC to z/OS, the format is broken, and ADRDSSU doesn't > recognize the DUMP (uploaded as blksize=27998, lrecl=0, recfm=u). > > Any recovery ideas for this situation, how to recover the PC data to a > RESTORE-able dataset? :) > > Thanks! > > Jerry > Mainframe Operations > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
