On Mon, 29 Dec 2014 08:11:37 -0700, Lizette Koehler wrote:

>You can do internet searches on ISPF PACK FORMAT and find many entries on it.
>You can go to www.ibm.com and search on ISPF PACK and get a lot of information
>
>You can go to ISPF and in the EDIT panel press PF1 (HELP) and find information 
>on it.
> 
If it's well enough documented one might write a filter to support othe
applications.

Wouldn't it be great if JCL DD supported POSIX pipes or BatchPipes to
this end?  Does the latter already exist, perhaps via SUBSYS=?

>As others have said, only ISPF can read ISPF PACK format datasets.
> 
Compression by the controller or virtual storage subsystem might be
a better alternative, if available.

-- gil

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