At the end, you mask specific fields (which are defined in records). The method I offered is generic. The data for this logic is unstructured, and the translation purpose is to identify possible texts and numbers the user might wish to hide. A loop of TRANSLATE, VERIFY and OVERLAY does need structured data. Indeed, the OP didn't supply much info. ITschak
*| **Itschak Mugzach | Director | SecuriTeam Software **|** IronSphere Platform* *|* *Information Security Continuous Monitoring for Z/OS, zLinux and IBM I **| * *|* *Email**: i_mugz...@securiteam.co.il **|* *Mob**: +972 522 986404 **|* *Skype**: ItschakMugzach **|* *Web**: www.Securiteam.co.il **|* On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 11:45 AM Radoslaw Skorupka < 00000471ebeac275-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > You talk about fields. > However user see records, not fields. Various records. > Manual editing single records with known fields is easy, however mass > change can be risky. > Note: as usually *we don't know* what is the author's need. IMHO this is > the least active person in this thread. > Without that we can only guess, assume or create very generic models. > > > Regards > -- > Radoslaw Skorupka > Lodz, Poland > > > > > W dniu 22.01.2024 o 17:24, ITschak Mugzach pisze: > > You can mask any character or external decimal field by using translate > > everything but a-z and 0 to 9 and check for minimum length (say, not less > > than three characters) in order not to convert hex data. Now find the > > positions and mask the original record. This way you do not care for the > > actual value in the field or record type. > > > > ITschak > > > > > > > > ITschak Mugzach > > *|** IronSphere Platform* *|* *Information Security Continuous Monitoring > > for z/OS, x/Linux & IBM I **| z/VM coming soon * > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 5:50 PM Willy Jensen<willy.h.jen...@outlook.com> > > wrote: > > > >> Most SMF records can be copied to a normal VB dataset. As I recall, only > >> one or two CICS records were really that big (or perhaps it is DB2, it's > >> been a while)? Anyway, you can select the record types that you need and > >> the use SORT to convert to normal VB. > >> > >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
