Ran into an oddball today. Needed to quickly diff a couple of z/OS catalogs, and figured it'd be easier using awk/diff than knocking up some REXX. So I ran LISTCAT and from SDSF XDC'd the sysprint. Pulled that over to OMVS to play with, couple of lines of awk, job done - DEF ALIAS for each difference in a file to use as SYSIN for IDCAMS again. Easy.
Decided I needed a standard job to do it all, so used OFILE in the LISTCAT job to generate the listings into files. Even added DCB of VB, 140 just to be sure. IDCAMS forces VBA, which I didn't pick up on until later. Same script with those (erstwhile) VBA files fails due to every line that has a page skip control (char "1" in column 1) being appended to the previous line. No line feed. A GENER of the files to VB prior to sending them to OMVS indeed confirmed this is what was happening. Anyone else seen this - or got an explanation ?. gil maybe ... ? Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
