Statement of direction:

Version 1 of File RePackager supports these features:

• Support for MVS sequential files as input and output
• Supports Fixed length records and Variable length records for input and output
• Support for z/OS UNIX files as input and output:
  • Type text (character data using record delimiters)
  • Type binary if prefixed with a 1- or 2- or 4-byte length indicator
  • Type binary if records have a fixed length
  • Type record (z/OS 1.11 or later)
• Command file can be sequential or z/OS UNIX file
• Supports squeezing trailing blanks, truncating data, and padding records
• Supports copying only a subset of the records (startafter and stopafter)
• Support for 4 EBCDIC code pages and 3 ASCII code pages

   

Version 2 of File RePackager is expected to support these additional features:

• Support for Unicode code pages for UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32
• Support for additional ASCII and EBCDIC code pages
• Option to request verification that a file contains only valid characters

   

Version 3 of File RePackager is expected to support these additional features:

• Support for field level extracting, reformatting, and re-encoding
• Ability to insert literals, to support markup such as XML and HTML
• Ability to insert leading and trailing records to support markup such as XML and HTML

Future releases are not currently scoped; but we are confident user input will give us great ideas for extensions.

Additional Details

Record conversions and file conversions supported
Code pages supported
Licensing information
Backstory: deep background for File RePackager
File RePackager User's Guide
File RePackager Installation and Customization Guide

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This page last updated: 25 September, 2011
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