It should be easy in, e.g., Perl, REXX. Even in HLASM. I don't know of a utility.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Frank Swarbrick <frank.swarbr...@outlook.com> Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2019 12:15 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Utility to parse fullword delimited flat file Does anyone know of a standard z/OS utility that could parse a flatfile that has fullword delimited records? That is, there is a fullword length followed by the record, followed by another fullword length field and another record, etc. It would then write (sans length header) each record to a VB file. Rather than writing my own program to parse it... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
