Re: What can I do with an unloaded partitioned data set on Linux?
On Thu, 01 May 2008 21:11:21 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> 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?
I'm having trouble finding a Debian 360 list. It doesn't seem to be on
the list of Debian mailing lists. Of course, I may just have failed my
search fu.
>
> 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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