topic Re: End-of-Line character using "termstr" equivalent on Mainframe ...???? in SAS Programming

End-of-Line character using "termstr" equivalent on Mainframe ...????

kannand — Sat, 21 Nov 2015 04:15:22 GMT

Hello -

I came across this article that shows that "termstr" option can be used for delimited files from Unix to Windows, vice-versa...

I am just curious, is there an equivalent of this option in the mainframe environment ? Is it possible to define the EOL character in an INFILE statement on the mainframe ?

Thanks in advance...

Re: End-of-Line character using "termstr" equivalent on Mainframe ...????

Patrick — Sat, 21 Nov 2015 06:35:23 GMT

What does the documentation tell you?

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/hosto390/68955/HTML/default/viewer.htm#p06y69omp86scmn1i9nvllynndga.htm

Re: End-of-Line character using "termstr" equivalent on Mainframe ...????

jakarman — Sat, 21 Nov 2015 07:30:15 GMT

Kannand only when you are running a mainfrem in Unix mode the Unix rules apply. In the OLD MVS z/OS world it is completely different and nothing like Windos Unix exist. FB VB VSAM have well defined records and do not use a character indicator (termstr) for that. Ebcdic/Ascii code pages adding more comlexity to translations as some might think.

Re: End-of-Line character using "termstr" equivalent on Mainframe ...????

kannand — Sat, 21 Nov 2015 12:21:20 GMT

I failed to provide the link to the article I referred in my post earlier. ..here you go. ..

http://support.sas.com/kb/14/178.html

Re: End-of-Line character using "termstr" equivalent on Mainframe ...????

jakarman — Sun, 22 Nov 2015 15:51:53 GMT

If you co not believe me ... this manual should be in your head. The USS (HFS type is a UNIX way) and the normal classic datasets. FILENAME Statement: z/OS , SAS(R) 9.4 Companion for z/OS, Fifth Edition

https://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/hosto390/68955/HTML/default/viewer.htm#n06xm17q99z0x6n1tskpswfrgp27.htm

Re: End-of-Line character using "termstr" equivalent on Mainframe ...????

kannand — Sun, 22 Nov 2015 15:59:46 GMT

Thanks for the url. I'll read thru.

I appreciate you looking into this.