Re: What can I do with an unloaded partitioned data set on Linux?
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 08:01:15PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> 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.
Well, Debian has a -360 list, just as it has an -amd64 list. Don't the
-360 people lurk here with the rest of us mere mortals?
The OP can of course give us more info, but IIRC, OS/360 data sets are
different than mere files but represent a self-contained world or data
and applications. The closest info I have is a old OS/400 book. If
there's something I can look up in that, let me know.
Doug.
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