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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
