Charles:
If all the records are V then why not just zap the dscb? then user
iebgener?
If the records are mixed (F & VB) then use any of the suggestions.
Ed
On Jan 15, 2013, at 11:53 AM, Charles Mills wrote:
Wow! What an awesome group and resource. Five answers in twenty
minutes. Responding more or less to everyone
- I realized after I hit send what I had implied but failed to
state: the file is "binary" -- that is, many of the characters are
not printable -- basic "mainframey" data. I suspect that editing it
under Windows would be problematic.
- I have both Rexx and assembler skills. Yeah, I was thinking that
if there were not another approach I might write a little Rexx
program.
- The sed approach looks interesting. I have very basic UNIX skills
so it would be a little bit of a challenge.
- What I like best I think is Dave Salt's approach. The file is
only 36+K. I suspect it is a couple of hundred records at most. I
could pretty easily do a FIND on the hex "delimiter", do an eyeball
check on whether it was a real record boundary or a false positive
(I can recognize the start of a real record), and then either hit
REFIND or a PF key that invoked a macro that split the record at
that point. Easier to debug than the Rexx program, and no false
splits to repair. I will still have to re-join the records that
currently break erroneously at the FB boundaries. Whoever it was,
thanks for the TF suggestion -- that should work.
I confess I have never written an ISPF edit macro. (I wrote a bunch
for XEDIT back when dinosaurs roamed the earth.) Dave, if you
wanted to consider this "contacting you" you could send me whatever
clues you wanted. I think you can make out my e-mail but if not it
is charlesm at mcn dot org. I think I just need a PF-key-invocable
macro that would split a record at the cursor position, putting the
character under the cursor into the latter record.
Hmmm, it's currently FB. I will have to first copy it into a VB
dataset so that short records stay that way.
Thanks all!
Charles
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Subject: Re: Break a dataset into new record boundaries?
On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:21:37 -0600, Roberts, John J wrote:
If binary, I would just write a one-off ASM program to recover the
original records. It's probably a 30 minute task, easier than
trying to learn anything new.
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