How popular/common is IBM File Manager? Looks kinda neat, I just never came
across it (but I tend to work at a different layer, so that proves little
except that it likely isn't super-ubiquitous).


On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Wayne Bickerdike <[email protected]> wrote:

> If you have IBM File Manager you can read the file using FM and give it the
> copy book as a template.
>
> Otherwise, you will need to perform an IDCAMS PRINT DUMP command and work
> out the contents from the copy book lay out and the dump format content.
>
> //DUMP EXEC PGM=IDCAMS
> //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
> //FILEIN DD DISP=SHR,DSN=YOUR.VSAM.FILE
> //SYSIN DD *
>  PRINT IDS(FILEIN) DUMP
> /*
>
> Might be quicker for you to post the copy book here and a couple of dump
> format records and we can help you with Decimal field interpretation etc.
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 4:23 AM, Ron Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hello. I am new to assembler so not sure whether i am asking the right
> > query? We have a assembler copybook and the corresponding file is a VSAM
> > KSDS. could someone let me know how to view the data in the file using
> this
> > copybook ?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Ron T
> >
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