On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 00:15:20 +0000, Frank Swarbrick wrote:

>Can JZOS be used off mainframe to process (yes, that's vague) a file that is a 
>combination of ECBDIC fields, binary integer fields and packed-decimal fields? 
> Basically, the file is defined by a (mainframe) COBOL copybook and would be 
>transmitted in binary to a distributed platform to be processed.
> 
I believe it would be less trouble to convert it with a COBOL program
using the copybook to a portable format such as XML, CSV, or even
fixed-field text before transmitting it.

-- gil

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