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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 26, 2017

Format data delimited by special characters.

To fullfill this requirement, the user is aware that he must provide a self written copybook/template. Using this template he should be able to format/map a data string which has his specific format, whereby a logical field to map is delimited by user defined delimiters. One simple example could be to map an XML input stream using a template in the same format and view as known for other z/OS datasets. The requirement is not restricted to XML only, instead other delimitrters like X'00' should be possible to map single records to his self defined templates,

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Mar 11, 2019

    Can you provide and example of what the data looks like and how you believe File Manager should interpret/map or format the data