On Sun, 7 Jul 2013 06:43:30 +0300, Binyamin Dissen wrote: > >Use a utility (IEBPTPCH, for one) that will dump the PDS into a flat file. > Does IEBPTPCH dump a PDS into a flat file without restriction or loss of information:
o Will it work with arbitrary RECFM, LRECL and BLKSIZE? o Is it immune to its delimiters being spoofed by data content, such as "//", "/*", "++", "./" ... in cols. 1-2? "You can choose your delimiter" is not a satisfactory answer, since in the general case there is no digraph guaranteed not to appear in the data. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
