Hendrik Boom wrote:
I'll assume that the PDS members were text, as in a source library... If I recall, an *unloaded* PDS was simply one or more iterations of [a header record containing something like "MEMBER XXXXXXXX", followed by individual text records]. Should be easily readable.What would help most would be the exact file format for unloaded partitioned data sets. That's the file format they got converted to when backing them up onto magnetic tape. I've never seen that documented. -- hendrik
Shouldn't matter whether the data was copied to/from mag tape. If you're looking at a 7-track *tape dump* though, you may be looking at not EBCDIC or ASCII, but BCDIC.
jeff