On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 07:02:45 -0800, Ed Jaffe wrote:

>I have been in this exact situation. IIRC, it was a z/VM guest with no
>network connections. (Users were DIALing in.) We tried to send a large
>amount of binary data in 80-column format to its RDR using the z/VM
>SPOOL command from another guest and kept running into delimiter issues
>reading in the job.

Ok. Now I see a use case. Thanks.

>We randomly tried every possibility we could think
>of and none of them worked. Eventually, we created a checklist and
>systematically used an editor FIND function to locate a working
>combination. A real PITA and many hours wasted...

I like Robert Rosenberg's solution: sort the file on the first two columns 
and look for a suitable gap in the sorted data. Probably a lot quicker than 
your checklist.

-- 
Tom Marchant

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