Owen Townsend

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reputation

Worked for mainframer for many years, started UV Software in 1993 Software to convert IBM mainframe JCL,COBOL,DATA to Unix/Linux Data manipulation tools for unix/linux systems

  1. uvsort - capabilities of IBM mainframe DFSORT & SYNCSORT
  2. uvcopy - data manipulation tool for text files & files FTP'd from mainframe - can process packed/binary fields, files w/o Linefeeds, Indexed files - can address fields by column position - can replace mainframe utilities (IEBGENNER,QUIKJOB,EASYTRIEVE,etc)
  3. uvhd - file investigation utility, displays in vertical hexadecimal - great for files with binary/packed fields - interactive utility with 25 help screens
    - free download from www.uvsoftware.ca/libuvhd.htm