On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 9:51 AM, McKown, John <[email protected] > wrote:
> OK. I've looked at IGGCSI00. Way to complicated, IMO. REXX is supposed to > make things __simple__. creating and decoding buffers in a REXX variable > "blob" is not my idea of simple. > > Isn't this how REXX deals with record/field data structures? :-) Take a look at the JZOS wrapper for CSI; it handles decoding of fields, but still requires an understanding of how CSI works - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/zos/javadoc/jzos/com/ibm/jzos/CatalogSearch.html http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/zos/javadoc/jzos/com/ibm/jzos/CatalogSearch.Entry.html http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/zos/javadoc/jzos/com/ibm/jzos/CatalogSearchField.html An interesting coding project would be to write a Java utility that would provide an XML interface to CSI, using this wrapper. Perhaps we should consider it as a future JZOS sample program. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
