Using an os390/ebcdic assembler load file

guysen · Post by **guysen** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 11:40 am

We need to do a lookup against a Assembler Load file from OS/390.
We have the Cobol declaratives to access this file. Is there anything special i have to use in Dstage to do lookup against this load file.
For now i downloaded the file as BIN on the Unix Platform. Do i use a Complex Flat file definition to access the different codes defined in this file. I need to do looks up against it.

Thanks
gs.

ArndW · Post by **ArndW** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 1:04 pm

If your file is defined in a simple COBOL copybook without OCCURS DEPENDING ON or similar complex construct you won't even have to use a CFF stage to read it.

You cannot do lookups on a sequential file, but you can load that file to a hashed file stage and do lookups on that.