Something else to think about...binary fields.
Coincidentally, on the Software AG NATURAL discussion board, there's been a
topic about migrating from BS2000/OSD to Unix and the various things to
watch out for. One thing that came up was endian-ness. Depending on the
software, it's possible that a fullword that is written on an IBM-compatible
mainframe as X'12345678' would be written on an Intel x86 box as X'78563412'
or, if written as 2 halfwords, X'34127856' ("middle-endian"). And you can
have problems between *n*x boxen, as Sun's hardware is big-endian. (Not
sure what the PowerPC is, but I think it's big-endian, too.)
(Non-mainframe NATURAL has an ENDIAN parameter to tweak this behavior.)
Later,
Ray
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--ilvi
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Bielefeld
> Sent: Friday 24 March 2006 12:52
> To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Convert 3490E Tapes to CD or DVD
>
> Rex and John,
>
> I thought of that fact, that packed data wouldn't get
> translated correctly. That's why I think the best solution
> would be to buy the tape drive and software, which would
> handle all of the data conversions. I guess I won't have to
> worry about it though.
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