BS2ZIP supports SAM, ISAM and PAM files including PLAM libraries.
ISAM Files
ISAM files with secundary keys are not supported.
Index and data of the resulting ISAM file after the extract statement are never separated. The resulting file after extraction may be greater than the original one.
#The padding (PADDING-FACTOR) associated to an extracted ISAM file is always the default one (DMS limitation).
PLAM Libraries
BS2ZIP processes PLAM libraries as a whole file.
Library elements can also be processed separately. The file information which is stored for the element in the PLAM library (if none is stored the PLAM default settings are used) is transferred to the ZIP archive and evaluated when extraction takes place.
Temporary Files
BS2ZIP enables temporary files to be added and extracted. These files are recorded under their cataloged file names, i.e. including the tempfile prefix.
As the tempfile prefix is assigned by the system on a task-specific basis, no files with a different tempfile prefix can be created in a task. It is only possible to extract a file with a tempfile prefix without renaming it if the file was added in the same task. Otherwise the file must be renamed explicitly when it is extracted.
Load modules of a PAMKEY disk
Load modules of a PAMKEY disk that have been added to a container cannot be extracted on a NK disk, even if the operand BLOCK-CONTROL-INFO=*IGNORE is set, because the generated NK load module does not contain all the necessary information needed to be loaded correctly on a NK disk.
If the operand BLOCK-CONTROL-INFO=*KEEP is set, you will receive the DMS error message:
DMS0D80 ALLOCATED DISK SPACE DOES NOT MATCH WITH THE REQUESTED FILE FORMAT.