On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 09:05:29 -0500, John McKown wrote: >We are running z/OS 1.12 on a z9BC. We have COBOL 3.4. Neither will ever be >upgraded. We will not obtain new hardware or software. Given the absolute >truth of the preceding :-( does anybody know a better way to convert a CSV >file, coming in from a UNIX box, to a "normal" sequential file with fixed >length character fields. At present we use the UNSTRING verb to do this. We >get these files daily and they are 100s of thousands to a bit over a >million records. This takes a while, both wall clock and CPU wise. Oh, >these actually use the pipe symbol, | (0x4F) and not a comma, if that is of >any relevance. Please don't suggest HLASM because our programming staff >(two people) basically knows only two languages: COBOL and CA-EasyTrieve.
DFSORT (PARSE): http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.iceg200/ice2cg_Using__nnn___nn_and__n_Parsed_Fields_with_BUILD_and_OVERLAY.htm Norbert Friemel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
