On Fri, 3 May 2019 15:00:04 -0400, Don Poitras wrote: > >z/OS scp is BAD. There's no way to tell it to do binary without doing >something like Paul's piping conniptions. > With conniptioned ssh, you can archive, transfer, and extract in a single ugly command, either push or pull.
On the first page of the Ref. for tar, I see: You cannot use tar unless you specify –f. Ouch! That's so idiosyncratic. Is it even true? (IIRC, POSIX no longer specifies tar, only pax.) z/OS pax provides EBCDIC->ASCII conversion (and many others). That may be useful to the OP. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN