:>: -----Original Message----- :>: From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On :>: Behalf Of Scott Barry :>: Sent: Friday, April 04, 2014 8:36 AM :>: To: [email protected] :>: Subject: Re: Unload CA-1TMC data into "flat file" for insert into RDMS? :>: :>: 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.
There are several binary fields, such as dates, that will make no sense if any bytes are assumed to be EBCDIC and converted to ASCII. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
