On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Norbert Friemel <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > > T hat reference is for 2.1, not 1.12, but if something similar is available on 1.12, it would probably be very good. -- Unix: Some say the learning curve is steep, but you only have to climb it once. -- Karl Lehenbauer Unicode: http://xkcd.com/1726/ Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
