It should be easy in, e.g., Perl, REXX. Even in HLASM. I don't know of a utility.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Frank Swarbrick <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2019 12:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Utility to parse fullword delimited flat file Does anyone know of a standard z/OS utility that could parse a flatfile that has fullword delimited records? That is, there is a fullword length followed by the record, followed by another fullword length field and another record, etc. It would then write (sans length header) each record to a VB file. Rather than writing my own program to parse it... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
