Re: 370 data to AS/400 -- MIDRANGE-L

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At 16:09 08/25/1999 , Tom McCollem wrote:
>I am trying to restore data saved from a S370 to an AS/400.  Unfortunately,
>I can't make any sense of the packed data.
>
>Is there a parm I may have missed on the CPYFRMTAP command?  Any advise or
>suggestions?

Nope. No parm. I used to do this quite a bit. I always had to run a 
clean-up program that went through the data, checked the position of each 
sign byte and translated it to something the AS/400 could understand. After 
that, I could copy it to a database file without problems.


Pete Hall
pbhall@execpc.com
http://www.execpc.com/~pbhall
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