On Fri, 13 Feb 2015 08:15:38 -0600, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: > >>>> Does any one have any conversion utilities to copy a complete PDS of many >>>> members from FB to VB format. >>Won't ISPF Copy utility do this? > >Sadly no, AFAIK and after a feeble attempt to RTFM. > Not even for a single member, or for PS? My memory is stale; ca. 1980. I suspect, then, that LMCOPY is no better. Will LM services enumerate the members for you?
On Fri, 13 Feb 2015 08:11:58 -0600, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: > >If you want combine (not that many) the members into one big dataset or >member, this should be easy. Just concatenate all the input members in one big >SORTIN DD. > The OP hasn't clarified, but I'm in the minority assuming he wants separate output members. >If you have say hundreds of such members, things can be trickier. > >Then you may need to write out a REXX or other language program to read the >directory list, build a SORT job for the first member and submit it. Repeat >with next member and re-submit with DISP=MOD for the output. This is needed >because I believe there is a limit of concatenation in the JCL. > Or, LINKMVS SORT within the Rexx loop. IIRC (but my record here today is bad) REPRO will convert FB<-->VB one member at a time. Same Rexx loop; simpler control statements. On Fri, 13 Feb 2015 15:10:58 +0000, Nims,Alva John (Al) wrote: >CBT File #187 > >-----Original Message----- >From: Of Alan Schwartz >Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 8:59 AM >I don't recall the exact file but on the CBT there's a program called CVTCLIST >that I use to convert FB clist pds' to VB. > Is that to move the line numbers from the right end to the left end? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
