Summary of contents

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 (C) 1995-2003 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler: [e-mail] / [e-mail]

• 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 possible ISO8859F/WINANSI conversion into EDF04F on request
    Extracting files as raw files (binary) on request (PAM files)

  • Under Windows:
    Opening of transferred BS2ZIP container using WinZip (transfer via ftp)
    Conversion EBCDIC text files (such as SAM/ISAM) ensured by the application (conversion EDF0x into ISO8859-15/WINANSI).
    All other elements are considered as “binary” file

  • Support of transfer using openFT < V11.0 by converting the file format of BS2ZIP containers (from SAM with RECORD-FORMAT=U to PAM and vice versa).

• 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.