On Mon, 8 Sep 2014 08:12:05 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote:

>> Anyway, I tested your way and it almost worked, Unfortunately there are 
>> packed fields in the records containing x'15' which are not a line end.
>>  
>John M's suggestion should work if the "packed" fields are
>conventional Packed Decimal, because (I believe) that neither
>x'0D25' nor x'0D15' can appear in Packed Decimal.  If the
>"packed" fields contain arbitrary binary data, there's the
>possibility that a large enough sample will by happenstance
>contain the x'0D25' sequence not intended as a line separator.
>

Two packed fields?
FIELD1   DC    P'-250'  
FIELD2   DC    P'250'   

Norbert Friemel

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