-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Wells Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 3:28 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Fw: catalog problem why?
Steve can you share what you did... <snip> Well, it has been about 15 years now, but as I recall: First you copy to DASD based on the LRECL/BLKSIZE you know the file to have (NO translation). In my case it was on a TAPE and we just IEBGENERed it to DASD. The file was Fixed Block (RECFM=FB), so that was rather easy. Meanwhile I had written a COBOL program to recognize the input records so I could pick up the COMP-3 fields, and the second file and records picked up the non-numeric data (two reads one for each FD so they stayed in synch). Ok, now the COMP-3 handling FD (DD) pointed to the DASD file with NO TRANSLATION. The other DD used DCB=(OPTCD=Q...). In reading the z/OS 1.7 JCL ref, it says that the data must be on TAPE. I think that it means that if it is on tape, it can't have STD Labels. I currently don't have any ASCII files to play with (nor do I have a COBOL compiler available to me under z/OS). So right now I can't recreate anything that I did. But the other way to do it is to copy the data using IEBGENER with OPTCD=Q to DASD (this assumes that either you do not have STD Labels, OR, you can do NL/BLP) and then do it again with NO Translation. If you need more, steve underscore thompson at stercomm dot com and I'll do what I can. Regards, Steve Thompson ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
