I would do Perl too, but what if you are limited to Rexx and EXECIO Ze'ev Atlas
________________________________ From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <shmuel+...@patriot.net> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 10:44 PM Subject: Re: Break a dataset into new record boundaries? In <00b301cdf342$63a548e0$2aefdaa0$@mcn.org>, on 01/15/2013 at 09:04 AM, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> said: >As luck would have it, every original record begins with the same >hex value. Can anyone suggest a simple tool -- z/OS, USS, or >Windows -- that would reformat the records breaking on every >occurrence of a particular byte value? I'd probably write a Perl script. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN