Howard: I would recommend OPEN, READ, CLOSE. :-) Nothing peculiar or special or difficult. I'm sure I don't understand why you ask.
COBOL is my native language. I'm gonna be writing a COBOL pgm to read the sysout from a HSM command to list dumpvols, just any day now. On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:49:58 -0400, Lizette Koehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If the file is on DASD or TAPE and I knew the layout of the file, I would use SAS or REXX to filter through and collect the stuff I want. I do this all the time with SYSLOG which does not look much different than the DCB provided below. > >Or probably could use DFSORT. > >COBOL could read the report the same way REXX or SAS would. Just need to know where the bits are in it that needed to be collected. > >I would use a straight COBOL pgm to read a record, filter, write a record process. Nothing complicated. > >Or, is there something I am missing here. This looks like straight SAM processing. Nothing special about this file, is there? > >Lizette >> >>What would be the cleanest way to have a CoBOL program read a report >>file >> >>// DCB=(RECFM=FB,LRECL=133,DSORG=PS) >> >> >> >>Would you copy it first, changing its format? >> >> > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
