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Programming Forum and web based access to our favorite programming groups.Hi, Just wanted to confirm a couple of things about "line-sequential" file. Read in the z/os docs that it means a file with only printable chars, with each record seperated by a newline. It also mentioned that physical records would be of different sizes as trailing spaces are chopped off. This means that if we have a copybook with the last entry as say 10 FILLER X(5). Then if in one record we had a string of 3 chars the remaining 2 spaces would not be wriiten to the file ? ALso this would only be valid for alphanumerics as numerics are right aligned so u'd never get trailing spaces. How about an array ? does this rule hold for all elements in the array (unlikely) and only for the last cell in the array (inconsistent)? Only printable chars means DISPLAY usage. What is a file which contains numerics with COMP's and the DISPLAY stuff mixed up called ? Are there sequential files of this format as well ? Is there anyplace where one can get hold of some sample sequential ebcdic data files along with their copybooks. These seem really hard to come by as opposed to say xml's and their xsd's ! Thanks
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