Bri P wrote on 07/14/2009 06:49:02 AM: > Can ICETOOL process variable-length fields where the length of that > field is stored in another field in the dataset? > > TYPE 119, for example, (the one I'm trying to process in this > instance) has a definition section at the front that describes, via > a number of 'triplet' data items, the offset, length, and number of > data sections that are in the record. > > In practice, I'm seeing that most of this is fixed anyway, certainly > for the FTP server completion details that I'm trying to process, > but the dataset name in particular is variable length. It is > described by a triplet near the beginning of the record. The offset > in that triplet seems to be actually constant, as does the number of > occurences of the dataset name section, so I'm just using fixed > positions in ICETOOL for these, but the two-byte length in that > triplet is variable and is the length of the dataset name I need to > pull out. Is this possible? > > I apologise if I've not managed to make this question very clear, > but it's quite a complicated data structure, no idea why the > designers wanted to do it like that, certainly not making it easy!
DFSORT/ICETOOL does not have any built-in functions for working with triplets in SMF records. It's possible you could do what you want with IFTHEN clauses or using a "trick" of some kind, but I'd need to see an example of the input records and what you expect for output before I could try to help with that. Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Development Team (IBM) - yae...@us.ibm.com Specialties: FINDREP, WHEN=GROUP, DATASORT, ICETOOL, 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 lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
