Topic: datasets

• Reaching z/OS datasets from the UNIX shell: the //'HLQ.NAME' notation, tsocmd, and encoding tags

  From a z/OS UNIX shell, classic datasets are addressed with the //'HLQ.DATA.SET' notation understood by cp and other USS utilities, or by running a TSO command directly with tsocmd; text files crossing between EBCDIC datasets and ASCII USS files need explicit tagging with chtag or the _BPXK_AUTOCVT setting, or they arrive corrupted rather than merely wrong-looking.

  methodology · en · reviewed · knowledge as of 2026-09-24

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