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Fixed Width Files
I work on a mainframe. One type of file commonly used is a fixed width file aka a flat file. These can be provided by the business to be used as input into processing or internal job processing. These are plain text files without delimiters that contain one record per line. Data is arranged in…
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What This Is All About
I’ve wanted to blog for a long time. I always knew I wanted to talk about technology. It’s a huge part of my life. I’ve worked as a programmer/developer/software engineer for the vast majority of my professional life. I grew up with technology. My professional life is fulled with DB2, SQL, MVS, TSO, VSAM files,…
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How I Got Here
I wanted to start a blog for a good long time. I spent ages thinking up all sorts of technology things I wanted to chat about from Gen-X childhood toys like Little Professor to trying to build my own iOS app. Names bounced around in my head from ‘Coffee over COBOL’ (limited scope) to Aunt…
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