Technical Forum

On this page I have put together some tips, tricks, hints, useful that is required while you work in the mainframe world. This will help the new people in the mainframe world, experianced programmers can find some useful stuff quickly without a need to go through the IBM books. For getting more information you can always go to IBM Bookshelves online.

You can give your feedback about this page, let me know any suggestions about improving it. You can submit any questions, I will try to find an answer for it. I also have few questions, go through them, write me if you know the answer.

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IEBGENER  
IDCAMS  
My questions  

DFSORT:

1. To convert a packed field in the input file and write it out as unpacked.

2. To split a file into multiple files depending on the values in a particular field.

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My questions:

  1. How to convert a variable block file into a fixed block file, the length of the fixed block file being the lenght of the largest record in the input file ?
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