June 21, 2012, 11:51 AM
Lou DiPaoloREADING BINARY FILES WITH PACKED FIELDS IN LINUX
We have a bunch of files that are RECFM=VB, and LRECL=4004 that we have had no success reading from Linux. Does anyone no if this is even possible, and if so what we can try. We have tried various RECFMs, such as V with no LRECL. My concern is that the initial 4 characters in a VB file are throwing it off.
June 21, 2012, 05:37 PM
WazWhat is the physical layout of the file ?
What created the file ?
June 21, 2012, 05:54 PM
David BriarsLou,
I haven't been on z/OS in a while, but what I would sometimes do is, convert the file from VB to FB
I would then build the MFD and report off of the FB copy/version.
Utilities such as DFSORT or SYNCSORT, can do the conversion.
Dave
