Re: [LINUX5250] [offtopic] Save File Format, anyone?

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The only thing IBM seems to want to document about save files is that
they have fixed-length 528 byte records.

I believe that a save file can contain any data.  It's purpose is to be a
disk file with the same semantics as a tape or diskette file.  (i.e.
sequential only, fixed-size blocks, etc)

What you REALLY want to know is what command was used to populate the save
file, and what format that command writes data in.   If the save file was
created using the SAVLIB command or SAVOBJ command, then you'll want to
know the format of data created with those commands.  And that format is
release-specific, and AFIAK undocumented.

You're probably better off doing what other people suggest and just
restoring the SAVF to an AS/400, and then transferring the source out of
it directly.


On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice wrote:

> Just a question, anyone know of documentation of the IBM save file format?
> A pointer to ibm.com would be handy (I can't even seem to find their old
> AS/400 library either... they seem to have replaced it with this new-fangled
> thing with less information.  Maybe I'm just being dense.).
>
> I've run accross some Open Source AS/400 programs which I'd like to poke at
> on Linux, but I gotta get them out of the box first ;-)
>
> -Jason