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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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