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misi01

I'm sure there's a way of browsing/viewing (whatever) a variable length file so you can actually see the RDW (alebit you'll need to set hex on).

For the life of me, I can't remember. Anyone out there with a better memory than mine ?

semigeezer · Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 12:12 am Post subject:

it isn't in base ISPF. maybe file manager or other editor. W/ base ISPF you'd have to copy the file to a fixed block file in some special way (SORT?) and browse that.

If you just want to figure out the length, set hex on on BROWSE or use ISRSETLN in edit/view. (From memory - didn't try that)
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papadi · Supermod Joined: 20 Oct 2009 Posts: 594 Topics: 1

If you hex-dump some of the blocks (not the logical records), you can see the bdw and rwd fields as they are simkply part of the data. DITTO has been around for a long, long time and still works quite well Smile

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misi01 · Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 1:39 am Post subject: To both of you

Semigeezer - tried the ISRSETLN, but all that seems to do is to change the length of each record (granted, it did show the current length of the record, but since I'd never heard of the command, that wasn't the one I was looking for).

Papadi. I'm sure you can, but I could swear I've edited/browsed/viewed/used some option in ISPF that showed me the record lengths as hex characters

papadi · Supermod Joined: 20 Oct 2009 Posts: 594 Topics: 1

I'm away from any mainframe connecton just now, but if you can find something that will browse physical records rather than logical records you should see the bdw/rdw values.

I believe some of the add-on tools provide this (maybe file-aid, or file manager, etc). I just don't remember. . . Sad

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