On 2014-05-12 14:24, R.S. wrote:
>>
>> o The "jar" command can (probably) be used to extract the .zip, removing
>>    the requirement for a desktop system.
>>
>> o Extracting on z/OS provides verification over more of the transfer
>>    path, largely detecting problems caused by EBCDIC, code page,
>>    and newline  conversion.
>>
> It's not broken, why do you want to fix it? 
>
I've seen enough errors in FTP or IND$FILE, (almost) always due
to user error, that I can't consider it "not broken".  At best,
"error-prone".

> I agree, the form of delivery is not the best I can imagine, but it's 
> working, quite easy to use and more or less convenient.
> What I would want to have is not changed delivery, rather some "atomization", 
> separated ESD, JCL and "DD *" files. Reason: no need to re-customize the tool 
> during version upgrade.
>  
Ah!  That sounds like TSO TRANSMIT (cf. cbttape.org), or even .tar.Z
(oops! Perhaps not for ESD); both using native z/OS methods.

> BTW: What DOS do you mean? VSE or MS-DOS? I don't know VSE, bit the .BIN 
> extension remains me AMSDOS system (Amstrad CPC H/W platform).
>  
MS-DOS.  I used a perhaps archaic OS name deliberately.

-- gil

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