BS2ZIP provides the following functions:
The creation of a BS2ZIP container compliant with WinZip® (PKZIP 4.5)
The addition of all kinds of BS2000 files and organization: PAM, ISAM, SAM and PLAM (separate library elements also being possible) using the compliant compression method “Zlib”: RFC 1950 Copyright ©1995-2003 Jean-Loup Gailly and Mark Adler: jloup@gzip.org / madler@alumni.caltech.edu
The extraction and restore of the BS2000 files with their original DMS attributes
The display of the available files included in the BS2ZIP container
The support of multiple files in the BS2ZIP container
Support of standard Zip 2.0 encryption when files are added or extracted
The interoperability with Windows environment:
Under BS2000:
Opening of WinZip made transferred archive files in BS2000 as BS2ZIP container (transfer via ftp)
Extracting files as text files (SAM files) with automatic detection of encoding between ISO8859F/WCP1252/UTF8/UTF16 and conversion of ISO8859F and WCP1252 to EBCDIC by default or conversion from a manually set encoding.
Extracting files as raw files (binary) on request (PAM files)Under Windows:
Opening of transferred BS2ZIP container using WinZip (transfer via ftp)
Conversion of EBCDIC text files (such as SAM/ISAM) ensured by the application (conversion EDF0x into ISO8859-15/WINANSI).
Interoperability with Linux/Unix system environment.
The possibility of reading and extracting files from GZIP archives.
A program interface in C++ is provided that offers all the functionalities of the TU application.
Additional product information
Current information, version and hardware dependencies, and instructions for installing and using a product version are contained in the associated Release Note. These Release Notes are available online at http://bs2manuals.ts.fujitsu.com.