On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 03:50:09PM +0000, 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? > > 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.
I remember that there are some old-timers on here who have mentioned in passing their history with mainframes, so hopefully you get an answer. I didn't start __administrating__ computers until OS/2 then Linux, although I am sure I _used_ a mainframe (probably doing that by sending this mail...). I must admit that until I read "days on OS/360...", I didn't know what you were talking about. On what medium are the data sets? Do you have a box that can physically read them? IIRC, there is a OS/360 emulator in the repository (I forget the name); I wonder if it can read it. For documentation, have you tried either wikipedia or the IBM website? Its advanced search page is quite powerful. I wish I had access to a mainframe (and the team to run it). I think I'd learn a lot of good, conservative, skills. Perhaps having people like you on DU is part of what makes Debian good and reasonably conservative. Good luck. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
