Okay, I think I have it. I've spent too much time on this already. Yeah, it's imperfect.
- The problem Gil describes below - TF seems confused by the binary data and at the very least stops on any line with a leading blank, I think. - Maybe one or two other details. But it's good enough for test data. I can just delete any hosed up records. The trick is defining a PF key as :TS;RFIND;RFIND That pretty well automates everything except the eyeball check "is this a real record?" You need two RFINDs because the first one finds the same byte again because it has now been moved down onto a lower line by TS. A little bit of a PITA: more records than I thought. Oh well. Sorry for hitting the panic button about trailing blanks. I was not familiar with the look of the ISPF editor with V records and HEX ON. It seems to me that the trailing blanks it displays are wrong: there are not blanks there; there is nothing there, which is not the same thing. Whatever. No idea why ISPF is blowing up with a S0C4. Very strange. The sequence is as follows: Edit data set -- all goes as expected. Exit out of edit. Edit data set -- ISPF immediately S0C4's. Edit data set again -- all goes as expected. Repeat as necessary. Thanks all! Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 12:44 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Break a dataset into new record boundaries? On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 12:16:55 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >Yeah, it seems to be working. Not sure yet. I think perhaps the apparent >blanks are just ISPF edit window dressing at the ends of the lines. It doesn't >know about short lines. > Of course, since you say the data are binary, a 0x40 at the end of a record (or where one was inadvertently broken) may be critical. Unfortunately, there's no way to tell ISPF not to add or remove trailing blanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
