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Status Not under consideration
Workspace File Manager for z/OS
Created by Guest
Created on May 29, 2012

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File Manager GUI - Editor, Template Editor - adding 'End' to indicate field's ending position in a file

In File Manager GUI, for a field you can see starting position, length but not ending position.  We can see ending position on mainframe and this is very important, because we need to know where the field begins and where it ends.  We are working with copybooks and very often the same area in a file is defined differently (for example, 200-byte file contains information for different record types).  We are using feature called 'redefine'.  Without 'End' position we need to calculate manually where the field ends.  This is for every screen in File Manager.  Please see the attached file

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 16, 2020

    This is being closed due to age. If this is still a concern please raise a new RFE. Redefines criteria is now available in the product which may address the underlying need as it will select only appropriate fields for a given record.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 19, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Development Tooling
    Product - IBM File Manager

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Enterprise Tooling
    Product - IBM File Manager

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