Multi formats in a single file were never a good idea. It's
time to look at a different way to handle that.

IBM offered a way to handle that with a logical over more
than one physical. While not pretty, it's pretty simple
and requires "minor" changes on your part.

You need to recall that multi-format files are a left
over from punched cards, which I watched disappear about
30 years ago.




Charles St-Laurent wrote:
Hi!

I was talking about converting a S/36 multiple format file to (a) native
file(s) with external description(s), that is not easier as it should be, in
my humble opinion...

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