On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 11:18 AM Frank Swarbrick < frank.swarbr...@outlook.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know of a standard z/OS utility that could parse a flatfile > that has fullword delimited records? That is, there is a fullword length > followed by the record, followed by another fullword length field and > another record, etc. It would then write (sans length header) each record > to a VB file. > > Rather than writing my own program to parse it... > How about a really off the wall method? I am assuming the data consists of a fullword length indication, followed by that number of data bytes. Iinterestingly enough, that is exactly what a FILEDATA=RECORD UNIX file looks like. So you could do something like: //COPYUNIX EXEC PGM=BPXBATCH //STDOUT DD SYSOUT=* //STDERR DD SYSOUT=* //STDIN DD DUMMY //STDPARM DD * SH cp -B "//'input.file'" >/tmp/X /* //* //COPYBACK EXEC PGM=IEBGENER //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSIN DD DUMMY //SYSUT1 DD PATH='/tmp/X',FILEDATA=RECORD, // PATHOPTS=(ORDONLY),PATHDISP=(DELETE,DELETE) //SYSUT2 DD DSN=something,DISP=(NEW,CATLG) // UNIT=SYSDA,SPACE=(CYL,(???,???),RLSE), // RECFM=VB,LRECL=?,BLKSIZE=0,DSORG=PS // -- I just burned 2000 calories! That's the last time I'll nap with brownies in the oven. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
