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Re: What can I do with an unloaded partitioned data set on Linux?



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On 05/01/08 10:50, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> I am the proud owner of several unloaded partitioned data sets, dating 
> back to my days on OS/360 and OS/370.
> 
> Does anyone have any code I could use to decode these?  I don't mean the 
> EBCDIC-to-ASCII (or to UTF-8) conversion -- I mean the weird file format.
> 
> Or documentation about this file format?

You aren't even telling us what application generated the data.  Are
they FORTRAN print files, SAM/ISAM library members, etc, etc.

I think that you'll get better results asking some mainframe-
oriented list or forum.

> Or will I have to reverse-engineer it myself?  Not that that's likely to 
> be an insurmountable task.  I just suspect that somewhere, someone has 
> already done it.

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

We want... a Shrubbery!!
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