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kitts
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Joined: 29 Jan 2006
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Hi,
I am getting this error while trying to use sort.
ICE143I 0 BLOCKSET COPY TECHNIQUE SELECTED
ICE000I 1 - CONTROL STATEMENTS FOR 5740-SM1, DFSORT REL 14.0 - 14:03 ON MON JAN
SORT FIELDS=COPY
INREC FIELDS=(1:1,4)
ICE201I 0 RECORD TYPE IS V - DATA STARTS IN POSITION 5
ICE126A 0 INCONSISTENT *INREC IFTHEN 0 REFORMATTING FIELD FOUND
ICE052I 3 END OF DFSORT
The Sortin and Sortout has PS files with same LRECL and RECFM |
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William Thompson
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Location: Tucson AZ
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| Do you realize that the first four bytes in a variable length record is the length? What are you trying to accomplish? |
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kitts
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I am having a lrecl of 121 in the input file and i want to have only the first 4 characters in the output file.
I am failing to achieve it with the sort card given as above. |
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William Thompson
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| Sort is telling you that the input is variable length, if you want the first four bytes of data, you will have to specify 8 bytes. The output will be variable. |
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kitts
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| Thnx a lot William I finally achieved by using the VTOF function. [/u] |
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Frank Yaeger
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Joined: 15 Feb 2005
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Location: San Jose, CA
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kitts,
The ICE126A error you received is described in the Explanation of the ICE126A message in "DFSORT Messages, Codes and Diagnosis Guide" as follows:
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A single field containing only bytes from the RDW was specified for variable-length records.
Example (variable-length input):
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You can access the MCD from:
Use [URL] BBCode for External Links
If you want a VB output file with the first 4 data bytes, you can use:
or if you want an FB output file with the first 4 data bytes, you can use:
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OUTFIL VTOF,BUILD=(5,4)
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kitts
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| Thnx Frank for your guidance. I have used the 2nd option! |
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