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Free Utilities

The following utilities are shareware and are available free for download.

Download Instructions

• Click on the above links to download the desired files to your PC.
• Use PKZIP, WINZIP, ZTreeWin (or similar program) to decompress the files.
  
  For those programs that run on the z/OS platform, the decompression process will yield a single file whose extension will be ".XMT" (example: SCHEDRUN.XMT).
• Upload the xxx.XMT file to your mainframe as a binary file, i.e. with ASCII-to-EBCDIC translation turned OFF. Use IND $FILE, FTP, or your workstation program's File Transfer Facility, to perform the upload.
  
  The DCB attributes for the upload file must be RECFM=FB, LRECL=80, BLKSIZE=n*80.
• Use TSO's RECEIVE command (not to be confused with SMP/E's RECEIVE command) to restore the transmit file into its original PDS library structure as follows:
  • Go to TSO's READY prompt or to ISPF's TSO Command Shell (option =6).
  • Type the following command: "RECEIVE INDSN(dsname)" where "dsname" is the name of the file that was uploaded.
  • The RECEIVE command will display a message file that you may or may not want to read at this time. (You will have an opportunity to read it later.) The last two messages displayed will be:
    
    INMR901I Dataset DBCOLE.EXPORT.name from ...
    INMR906A Enter restore parameters or 'DELETE' or 'END' +
    
    To restore the file just press ENTER. This will cause the library to be restored to a dataset named "prefix.EXPORT.name" where "prefix" is your TSO session's current default high level qualifier for dataset names (usually your userid but can be changed via the PROFILE PREFIX(name) command).
  • If you prefer to restore to a different dsname, then when the INMR906A message is displayed, type DSNAME(name).
  • For information about other possible options accepted by the INMR906A message, type a question mark before pressing ENTER.
• The restored library will contain a $$DOC member and/or a README member. Read these members for further instructions.

Dave's pick

Here is one of Dave Cole's favorite utilities.