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