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.

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> 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.
> 
> 
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> 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
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