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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Johnson, William
> Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 2:17 PM
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> Subject: DCB attributes for USS file
>
>
> How can we determine DCB attributes for a USS file? We're
> trying to do
> an IEBGENER (SYNCSORT's flavor) from a particular path and getting
> IEB317I JOB TERMINATED, NO INPUT BLKSIZE/LRECL because we don't know
> what values to use for RECFM, LRECL, BLKSIZE. I assume it's not the
> same as the HFS which contains the file?
>
> Bill Johnson
There is no such concept for UNIX file. For a TEXT file, each line can
be an arbitrary length, terminated with a x'15'. If you need to copy it,
you just must "know" what the maximum possible line length would be,
probably based on knowing the nature of the program which created it.
You can determine it with a small program which reads the file (I'd use
either Perl or REXX, personally).
#!/usr/bin/perl
lrecl=0;
while (<>) {
chomp; # remove end-of-line character(s)
reclen=length($_); #get length of current line
lrecl = reclen unless lrecl > reclen; #update lrecl, if
necessary
}
print "Maximum record read was $reclen bytes"
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John McKown
Senior Systems Programmer
UICI Insurance Center
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