If the content via notepad is readable (ASCII) then it's likely that the files weren't transferred binary, and that some important info for XMIT (or whatever) is lost.
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On > Behalf Of Seymour J Metz > Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2021 10:59 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Format PDS unloaded on an CD > > If it's XMIT format then you can do a binary transfer to an FB LRECL 80 > dataser > and use RECEIVE. There's also at least one XMIT manager that runs on > windoze. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://mason.gmu.edu/*smetz3__;fg!!JmPEg > BY0HMszNaDT!- > zJV1Ap5UsXU3SFwtB4ieDGbctxysnAk90z7OS4ovOSafsNJWib5-Yp8nwGzPA$ > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on > behalf of Hilario Garcia [[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2021 1:12 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Format PDS unloaded on an CD > > 811 / 5000 > Resultados de traducción > I have a CD with download of several PDS files. The person who generated it > is dead and the system where these files were has died and it cannot be > download again. > I don't know how these files were obtained (eg: DFDSS, IEBCOPY, > AMATERSE, XMIT, IND $ FILE, FTP ...). Viewing the content of these files with > Notepad, the PDS directory appears in the first registers and control blocks > throughout the file. I also view the source code of the > PDS files but it is not aligned. > I have the need to recover these files and after many attempts with > different methods I have not been able to load them in usable PDS format > for the Z / OS. > > Can someone give me some idea or procedure to try to recover said PDS's? > > Thank you very much in advance. > > Kind Regards. > > Hilario > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
