Problem:

How to download a VSAM File from the Mainframe into Mainframe Express (not using MFA,such as for a VSE shop)

Resolution:

1.

Extract with appropriate tool  VSAM dataset on the mainframe to a variable sequential file

2.

Upload VRECGEN.CBL delivered with Mainframe Express to the Mainframe

3.

Compile VRECGEN on the mainframe

4.

Convert the variable sequential file of step 3 with  VRECGEN to a Micro Focus VRECGEN file             format (basically it adds a 2 byte length field in front of every record containing the actual               record size plus 2 for the 2 byte length field)

          (if there is a tool available on the mainframe which can create the same required record                   layout steps 2  to 4 can be omitted)

5.

Transfer this file binary to the workstation

6.

Convert this file with Convert Utility of Data Tools of Mainframe Express to a VSAM dataset