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[cliven]

I have data on a Unix box which I have to move to a MVS box. Under MVS I require the data to be in a variable length record format, however the data has no record delimiter (it is binary), but I do know the length of each record and I could include this in the file as 2 or 4 bytes preceeding each record. I can get the data to the MVS box using CA-XCOM, but XCOM seems to have no way of being passed record lengths in this manner. I would like to avoid writing any code to interpret "my length" to do the conversion from F to V and am hoping that there is some easy to use utility which do it for me? Can I just edit the RECFMT attribute of an appropriately constructed fixed record length file?

[kolusu]

Cliven,

Can you use FTP? With FTP you can modify the attributes of the file. For some reason if you cannot FTP the file then you can convert the fixed Block(FB) file to Variable Block file using IEBGENER , SORT ...

Hope this helps...

Cheers

Kolusu
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[cliven]

I think I'm forced to use XCOM, so some sort of conversion is required.