Brian, File 600 on the CBT tape has a utility that reads and formats the type 119 records. We've been using it for a couple of years now. If your shop allows it, it might be easier to download it and adapt it rather than rolling your own.
HTH, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith co. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bri P Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 8:49 AM 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! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
