RE: ICF File...

[Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim wrote:

>If I have written data to an ICF file, is
>there any way to look at the data in the file?

No.

>The bank says were sending an extra trailing record,
>and we were looking for a way to test the data,
>without bothering the bank...

Not readily, but you can do a post-mortem sort of thing by running a
communications trace (STRCMNTRC and TRCICF).

The reason you can't see data that's in an ICF file is that there isn't any
data in an ICF file.  Being a device file, it routes data from your program
to the far end of the communications link.  Nothing is stored there.

If you are familiar with ICF files, you could set up an Intra subsystem and
write a companion to your existing 'send' program to do the receive side.
Perhaps the easiest thing to do is to look at the line trace and see if you
can see what the HLL program is doing.
  --buck