Unfortunately the vendor wants to charge us an unreasonable amount for this "custom coding". :-( ________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 29, 2017 6:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: JZOS on open systems question
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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
