John McKown wrote on 01/29/2008 09:46:53 AM: > This is likely a strange question. But does anybody know of anything > which can take a COBOL copy book (file defination) and create DFSORT > symbols? Or maybe something that can post process a COBOL compile > listing and create DFSORT symbols? > > What I would like is a way to __easily__ create a DFSORT step which can > read an input file and do selection and reformatting so that the > resulting output file is simply "printable" EBCDIC. This output file > would then be ftp'ed to a Windows / Linux server which would use it to > update a relational database. We don't have any relational database > software on z/OS. I want to use symbols so that, hopefully, even a > non-programmer could easily learn how to write such a "program".
John, We have a Rexx in the "Smart DFSORT Tricks" document that can do what you asked for. See "Create DFSORT Symbols from COBOL COPYs" at: http://www.ibm.com/servers/storage/support/software/sort/mvs/tricks/ Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Development Team (IBM) - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Specialties: PARSE, JFY, SQZ, ICETOOL, IFTHEN, OVERLAY, Symbols, Migration => DFSORT/MVS is on the Web at http://www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
