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dilmohan
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Can any one tell me the meaning of third parameter i.e. 30
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Kodisala
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| If I am not wrong... it should be OUTREC(1:2,30)... Then it says 30 characters of input dataset record beginning from 2 nd character should be copied to output dataset record starting with position 1. |
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Frank Yaeger
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This syntax is incorrect. Presuming this is part of an OUTFIL statement, OUTREC( should be OUTREC=(. And 1,2,30 is not valid at all. 30 would have to be followed by a length to make it valid, e,g (1,2,30,5). (1:2,30) would be valid as Kodishala explains.
Go back to wherever or whoever you got this parameter from and look again. |
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dilmohan
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HI
I checked it again ..its OUTREC FIELDS=(1,4,30) and its there in production. |
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Frank Yaeger
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That makes more sense. That's a valid OUTREC statement for a VB input set. It creates output records with the RDW (1,4) and the bytes from input position 30 to the end of the record.
If you're not familiar with DFSORT and DFSORT's ICETOOL, I'd suggest reading through "z/OS DFSORT: Getting Started". It's an excellent tutorial, with lots of examples, that will show you how to use DFSORT, DFSORT's ICETOOL and DFSORT Symbols. You can access it online, along with all of the other DFSORT books, from:
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dilmohan
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Hi Yaeger
I wolud really appreciate your efforts to solve my problem.
Otherthan that can you tell me wat is RDW ?
i checked with manuals but nothing helped out.
I got this much that its something related to VB file |
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Jerry
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Hi Dilmohan,
RDW is Record Word Descriptor, which is used to give details regarding record length in a VB file.
Correct me if I am wrong.
Regards,
Jerry. |
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Frank Yaeger
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| The RDW is the Record Descriptor Word. It is the first 4 bytes in VB records. The first two bytes gives the length of the record in binary (e.g. a 50 byte record has X'0032' in the first two bytes). The second two bytes are X'0000' for a VB file. |
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Brian's_song
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| Thank you very much , Frank!! |
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