The com.ibm.jzos.fields package supports binary, packed, zoned, and HFP data and will run on non-z/OS Java platforms. When running on z/OS, some of the converters will use "data access acceleration" primitives to speed things up, but otherwise the code is just Java.
Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 7:16 AM, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 12:01 AM, Timothy Sipples <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > What Frank wants is to process z/OS data from a _third_ party on an > Intel(?) platform using the Java language on that platform. He does not > want to transfer the third party z/OS data to their z/OS at all. This > third party data is not textual, but includes text data (encoded in CP-037 > or maybe IBM-1047) along with binary integers (fullword & halfword?) and > maybe some packed decimal as well. Hopefully this data would _NOT_ include > HFP floating point since that would be a real PITA to use on an Intel (or > any other non-IBMZ) platform. > > > I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything, but I can't prove > it. > > Maranatha! <>< > John McKown > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
