We use the IBM Early Development Systems in Dallas, File Manager comes with the package. We have a customer who uses File Manager and it's also part of the ADCD set. For corporates, I guess it depends on cost/need since some shops will have 3rd party alternates like File Aid or Easytrieve etc.
In our customer's case, they use our VSAM transparency to DB2 product and wanted to read VSAM files (converted to DB2). They use File Manager for CICS to read/update DB2 tables. The interface is just like ISPF EDIT/VIEW with the additional neat feature of having the copy book as a template. Works for BDAM/KSDS/ESDS and QSAM etc. On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 9:34 AM, zMan <zedgarhoo...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 <wayn...@gmail.com> > 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 <ron5...@gmail.com> 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 > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Wayne V. Bickerdike > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > > -- > zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
