The format of the tar and USTAR archives does not allow the storing of symbolic links whose target pathname exceeds n characters. In order to store the greater than 100 characters symbolic links, one of the following must be used: _OS390_USTAR=Y environment variable, -o saveext, or -x os390.
The program continues.
For z/OS® Release 8 or later, pax and tar support an extended USTAR format, which can store symbolic links whose target exceeds n characters. See z/OS UNIX System Services Command Reference for more information.