I thought I could use IEBDG (Data Generator) to create a small file with a single binary data record in it.
Let's take a simplified example. I want to create a file with a 2 byte record with x'a1b2' as the contents. I use FD to define two fields, each one byte long: FD NAME=BYTE1,LENGTH=1,STARTLOC=1,PICTURE=161 FD NAME=BYTE2,LENGTH=1,STARTLOC=2,PICTURE=178 Then CREATE to use the two fields... CREATE QUANTITY=1,NAME=(BYTE1,BYTE2) But when I run it, I get errors from IEBDG: IEB727I KEYWORD VALUE NOT FOLLOWED BY A BLANK OR COMMA. I've tried various forms of the PICTURE=keyword, tried using CREATE only,, all sorts of combinations, and with each a whole new set or error messages. Yes, I could write a little rexx program to write my hex data to a new dataset, but I prefer to do it with an existing utility if I can. The hex data is constant, I just want it written to a new data set when a job runs... Is there another utility that can do this easily? In a nutshell: //S1 EXEC PGM=... //SYSUT1 DD * a1b2c3d4e5f6 /* //SYSUT2 DD LRECEL=6,RECFM=F,... //SYSIN DD * COPY HEXCHARTOBINARY /* and the resulting file will be 6 bytes long, with x'a1b2c3d4e5f6' as contents. Thanks ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
