On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:39:04 +0200, Sarel Swanepoel wrote: > >Even given that you can use VSAM spanned or variable spanned PS, the >next issue is how does he get the data into the dataset. He would have >to devise some funky way of reading the outside data in pieces, >assembling it into the 32761 byte record and writing it to the output >dataset.< > I believe you can do the latter (PS) with BSAM. But I grant that many regard BSAM as funky.
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