Re: Weird format

Author: Vincent Teachout

Posted: 2011-03-02 at 08:08:53

Michael Madigan wrote:

> here's an example

>

> DATASET NAME: DLSMODLL.D2200.COBLIB(FMCTR001) TIME 13:57:42

> 0 SEQ LVL FIELD NAME FORMAT START LENGTH

> 291 05 WX-BAL-ACCT-BAL ZS 7 2 810 9

> 292 05 WX-BAL-PT-BAL ZS 7 2 819 9

> 293 05 WX-BAL-TOT-INS-BAL ZS 7 2 828 9

> 294 05 WX-BAL-TOT-PT-PAY-AMT ZS 7 2 837 9

> 295 05 WX-BAL-TOT-PT-ADJ-AMT ZS 7 2 846 9

> 296 05 WX-BAL-TOT-ROOM-CHG-AMT ZS 7 2 855 9

> 297 05 WX-BAL-POSTED-SINCE-XFR-BD ZS 7 2 864 9

> 298 05 WX-BAL-FINAL-BL-BAL ZS 7 2 873 9

> 299 05 FILLER C 3 882 3

> 300 05 WX-BAL-INS-GRP(1) G 885 32

>

Holy Shit! "Zoned Signed" I haven't seen that since college. COBOL, I

believe. (I've tried to forget it) If it is, watch out for record

overlays - same file could have different record layouts.

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