I don't know how big your file is, or how automated a process you need,
but if you open
and save the file with ISPF Edit, and you don't have this option checked:
/ Preserve VB record length
then it will automatically trim the trailing blanks off.
I know, because I work with files where
I don't know how big your file is, or how automated a process you need, but if
you open and save the file with ISPF Edit
I've always thought that ISPF EDIT could only handle up to 255!
DCB=(DSORG=PS,RECFM=VB,LRECL=1504,BLKSIZE=27998)
1504 is a little longer!
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Ted MacNEIL wrote:
I've always thought that ISPF EDIT could only handle up to 255!
Not for a very long time.
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/ISPZEM00/1.1.2?SHELF=ISPZPM00DT=20001109114810
Bob
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On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't know how big your file is, or how automated a process you need, but
if you open and save the file with ISPF Edit
I've always thought that ISPF EDIT could only handle up to 255!
I think that restriction was lifted
I've always thought that ISPF EDIT could only handle up to 255!
I think that restriction was lifted around 1990...possibly earlier.
Then, I'm wrong again!
I've had problems with EDIT macros, but then I went away.
So, I've no idea what the restrictions are, anymore.
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Subject: Re: Another ICETOOL challenge
I don't know how big your file is, or how automated a process
you need,
but if you open
and save the file with ISPF Edit, and you don't have this
option checked:
/ Preserve VB record length
then it will automatically trim
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:19:51 -0500, Bass, Walter W wrote:
I thought about that briefly but my file was too large for
ISPF edit and I also had the apparently mistaken impression
that it would only remove the trailing spaces from the
particular records that got otherwise changed. Kind of the
way
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I have a file of variable length records
DCB=(DSORG=PS,RECFM=VB,LRECL=1504,BLKSIZE=27998)
The records are already a variety of different lengths.
Many, but not all of these records have trailing blanks (x'40') on the
end.
I would like to remove those trailing blanks.
I suspect that ICETOOL
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:07:16 -0500, Bass, Walter W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a file of variable length records
DCB=(DSORG=PS,RECFM=VB,LRECL=1504,BLKSIZE=27998)
The records are already a variety of different lengths.
Many, but not all of these records have trailing blanks (x'40') on the
end.
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