A question regarding editing a file in browse mode..

Mukesh Pandey · Active User Joined: 11 Nov 2008 Posts: 143 Location: India

a flat file is too large and while opening the file in edit mode the file opens in browse mode rather than opening in edit mode.

how to edit the file in this case and save changes.

for view mode we can do it using the command :

REPL .ZF .ZL FILENAME

Please let me know how we can edit the file which is opened in the browse mode in the above example.

Terry Heinze · Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 6:29 pm

One option would be to use a different editor like File-Aid for instance. It MIGHT allow editing of a larger file than ISPF does. Another option would be to split the file up into smaller files via your sort product, edit each file, then concatenate them back together.

Mukesh Pandey · Active User Joined: 11 Nov 2008 Posts: 143 Location: India

Any other option?

Robert Sample · Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 6:32 pm

Contact your site support group for assistance. They may have some suggestions based upon your site and its environment that we wouldn't know about.

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 9:09 pm

dick scherrer · Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 9:28 pm

Hello,

Many files are simply too large to work with online. . .

If this is such a large file, you need to accomplish the updates in a batch job - IMHO.

If you split the file into several smaller pieces to work with, this will waste time and be more error prone (people make mistakes - tested processes do not).