Re: OV/400 to PF

Hello Rob,

I have a program using the HFS-api's to retrieve and extract the text part of a 
OV/400-document. Among other things we have used it do exactly what you want to 
do - if you wan't a copy please let me know.

Best regards,
Carsten Flensburg

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <owner-midrange-l@midrange.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: 8. marts 2001 23:12
Subject: OV/400 to PF


> We have an application which basically used OV/400 as an early version of
> variable length fields for entering comments.  There would be a field in
> the main PF which would contain the document name in OV/400.  To print the
> main doc was a masterpiece of merging.  Now I have just under 2,000
> documents I need to convert into data into a PF.  I've looked at CPYFRMPCD
> and CPYFRMIMPF and I am meeting with abysmal failure.
> 
> Then I tried PRTDOC into an output file.  This looks nothing like the
> printout.  You get scads of stuff where I have no idea where it came from.
> 
> My next technique will be to PRTDOC into a spool file.  Copy the spool file
> to a disk file.  Take the disk file and append that onto another DB2 file
> and construct a key back to the original file.  Now if I can only get that
> dang cheshire cat to stop disappearing and reappearing...
> 
> Any better suggestions?


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