You can use IEBPTPCH to "print" or "punch" a data set to disk or tape. If you do so, the first character of each record will be an ASA carriage control character, which is used to control the printing or punching operation. You can print or punch the data set at a later time using the PREFORM=A parameter of the PRINT and PUNCH statements.

If you punch a data set to disk or tape, you can, at your option, include sequence numbers in positions 73 through 80.

If the data set contains double-byte character set data, shift-out/shift-in characters (< and >) will be inserted at the beginning and end of a record if the DBCS string exceeds the logical record length of the output data set.