On Fri, 4 Apr 2014 07:33:03 -0500, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote:
>Sorry, CA, but I don't like EARL. > >And I am no longer very CA-1 literate. What I would like to do is to be >able to unload the TMC to a "flat file" which is columnar. I would like >something akin to what IRRDBU00 does for the RACF data base. I could then >write a simple program to read the data in the columns and insert it into >my favorite data base (in my case PostgreSQL on Linux). > >Is there a simple way to do this? I have used an EARL program, but that >results in a "report" which is limited in line length (too short) and has >"junk" in it (page headings). > >No, I don't want to write an HLASM program to do it myself, but will if >that is the only answer. > >-- >There is nothing more pleasant than traveling and meeting new people! >Genghis Khan > >Maranatha! <>< >John McKown > Honestly this is a non-issue - check the DCB attributes and you will see the answer; the CA-1 TMC is a flat-file, managed by CA-1 internally with VOL (one per tape volume) and DSNB (stacked datasets) record-types. However you will want to move/copy the dataset in binary (not allowing ASCII conversion, if applicable) because likely some data-fields cannot survive an EBCDIC-to-ASCII conversion. Scott Barry SBBWorks, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
