Splice - reformatting problem

jzhardy · Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 12:56 pm

I have a VB input file as follows (base records are shown first)

William Thompson · Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 3:18 pm

What control statements are you using? What does the output look like? What do you want the output to look like?

Frank Yaeger · Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 9:49 pm

Please show a good example of your input records with actual values and more than one key1 and key2 value. Show the records you expect for output. Give the starting position, length and format of the relevant fields. Give the RECFM and LRECL of the input file.

William Thompson · Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 9:53 pm

I wouldn't count on a reply, of the 3 posts he has started, none of them has ever been followed up on.....

Frank Yaeger · Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 9:59 pm

Good. Less work for us.

jzhardy · Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 2:24 am

input and output are both VB4096

input file of ...

111 01 abc 11 def
222 02 abc 22 ghi
333 01 wxy 33 xyz
111 __ ghi 11 uuu
222 __ cde 22 xxx
222 __ yyy 22 iii

(__ = spaces)

would become

111 01 ghi 11 uuu
222 02 cde 22 xxx
222 02 yyy 22 iii

hope this makes it a bit clearer !

William Thompson · Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 2:33 am

Well there's a first time for everything....

Frank Yaeger · Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 4:55 am

jzhardy,

Here's a DFSORT/ICETOOL job that will do what you asked for:

dineshness · Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 11:24 pm

Frank,

Shouldn't the splice be done on both the key fields of the file like below

SPLICE FROM(IN) TO(OUT) ON(1,3,CH) ON(12,2,CH) -
WITHALL WITH(5,4) WITH(11,4086) VLENOVLY

I think only then

111 01 abc 11 def
111 __ ghi 11 uuu

would become as

111 01 ghi 11 uuu

Dinesh.

Frank Yaeger · Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 12:40 am

Dinesh,

Huh? My SPLICE operator does do it on both key fields:

SPLICE FROM(IN) TO(OUT) ON(5,3,CH) ON(16,2,CH) -

The first key field is 5,3,CH and the second key field is 16,2,CH. Note that the RDW is in position 1-4 so the first data position is 5, not 1.

So I'm not sure what you're saying.

jzhardy · Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 6:29 am

THANKS - this works ok now. my problem was I was thinking that the base record is overlayed onto the duplicates; where it is in fact the other way around : the duplicates are overlayed onto the matching base record, generating a new record for each match ...

Frank Yaeger · Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 10:01 pm

More accurately, the WITH fields from each overlay record are spliced into the base record.

dineshness · Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 11:25 pm