Hi folks Can ICETOOL process variable-length fields where the length of that field is stored in another field in the dataset?
TYPE 119, for example, (the one I'm trying to process in this instance) has a definition section at the front that describes, via a number of 'triplet' data items, the offset, length, and number of data sections that are in the record. In practice, I'm seeing that most of this is fixed anyway, certainly for the FTP server completion details that I'm trying to process, but the dataset name in particular is variable length. It is described by a triplet near the beginning of the record. The offset in that triplet seems to be actually constant, as does the number of occurences of the dataset name section, so I'm just using fixed positions in ICETOOL for these, but the two-byte length in that triplet is variable and is the length of the dataset name I need to pull out. Is this possible? I apologise if I've not managed to make this question very clear, but it's quite a complicated data structure, no idea why the designers wanted to do it like that, certainly not making it easy! Thanks in advance Brian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
