Re: OV/400 to PF

["Patrick Townsend" <patownsend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob,

When use PRTDOC to a file you will get several different record types. I
think a "60" record type is the printed image of the file. There's an OV/400
document that defines the record formats (maybe in the system programming
set of manuals?). With a little programming I think you can interpret this
file....
Patrick
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----- Original Message -----
From: <rob@dekko.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 2:12 PM
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?
>
> Rob Berendt
>
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