>From what I can see (and I'm a novice), the JAVA language does not have >anything like a C/C++ struct or COBOL data defination which can be used to >read "records" kept in a "dataset" (such as VSAM or PS). I know of the >Alphaworks program which can take ADATA from HLASM and generate Java code >which can be used to separate a record into fields. It does work. But the >generated code is not what I'd call "easy to understand". Using JAVA with an >RDMS, or XML input, is much easier. So I'm wondering if anybody actually uses >Java with, say, VSAM files and, if so, how you process a record? Has somebody, >perhaps, written a JDBC driver to read their VSAM files? That might be >interesting to look into. If I knew Java and JDBC well enough.
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