Re: Cobol convert program Job Request

jacodeguy@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Ok... that looks crappy... try this link instead:

http://camavision.com/dn/bsketchdump.txt

It looks like there's a 128-byte header followed by the records. Each 826-byte record is preceded by a 2-byte prefix ("C:"). The first 21 bytes of each record do in fact look like an alpha key.

The rest of the record doesn't seem to match the layout. For one thing, it's too short; 200 repetitions of pairs of S9(4) COMP should take 1200 bytes. And I don't think the all of the data looks like signed packed decimal.

Any idea what the sending system thinks is in the first few records?

Louis
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