by steve-myers » Mon 16 Aug 2010, 13:47
I don't know of any.
If you have access to a main frame type computer (and since you using this web site we all know you do), it is much easier to create them on your mainframe, possible doctor them up using mainframe tools to hide their origin, and download them to your PC as a binary file.
If you have text data on a PC upload the text data as text data (and translate it to EBCDIC from ASCII) using the usual tools, and use the XMIT command to create an XMIT file, though why you would want to do this I can't imagine since it is much simpler to just send the original text file. You can also play this game with binary files such as executable programs, word processing documents or spreadsheets in their native format, but it is much easier to send them directly.
The other question is why do you want to do this? XMIT files are normally created on the mainframe by the XMIT command; they have a slightly funky format and use the EBCDIC character set. On a PC they are in what is called the "binary" format. More often than not the mainframe data in an XMIT file is an IEBCOPY unloaded PDS, which is very funky from the point of view of a PC.
The only major source of XMIT files on a PC is they are the primary distribution media for the "CBT" web site; but those were initially created on a mainframe, downloaded to a PC and then uploaded to the "CBT" site.
There is a utility to read XMIT files on a PC, but it is kind of flaky. I got it years ago, but don't use it. If I have an XMIT file on a PC I usually upload it to a mainframe, receive it, and then check to see what is in it using mainframe tools