REPRO records from a 247 LRECL file to a 500 byte

muffirulz · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:46 am

I want to repro records from a 247 LRECL file to a 500 byte output file...How do I do this using REPRO..

dick scherrer · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:53 am

Hello,

Is this a sequential file or a vsam file?

If you intend to use REPRO, i do not believe REPRO is a parameter for the sort.

Please provide more detail about your files.

muffirulz · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:44 pm

I want to copy from a flat file to flat file using repro but output file LRECL is bigger.

dick scherrer · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:49 pm

Hello,

Is there some reason not to use IEBGENER or SORT? Both of them run faster than IDCAMS

muffirulz · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:54 pm

Hi,

Well we ahve a pre-defined proc running in production which uses REPRO command and we are required to pass the datacard and the files. Hence I am trying to reduce the overhead of building a new proc step and modify other elements.

muffirulz · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 8:17 pm

actually there is existing job which uses repro..so i cant change that job much...only LRECL..is it not possible thru REPRO..

siddesh623 · New User Joined: 23 Aug 2007 Posts: 8 Location: Bangalore

hi,

i think to use repro, both flat files must have same record length. otherwise it will throw error code 39 (record length mismatch)

pls suggest me, if i am wrong.

zensa · New User Joined: 21 Feb 2007 Posts: 10 Location: India

A return code of 8 will arise if there is a mismatch in length of Input and

Output files...

File status 39 arises for mismatch between logical and Physical file

declarations....

expat · Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 9:25 am

muffirulz

What happened when you tried it.

You have tried it yourself - haven't you.

Raghavendra P K · New User Joined: 24 Aug 2007 Posts: 24 Location: bangalore

Hi ,
If you use repro for copying the file you will get the below mentioned error.

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IDCAMS SYSTEM SERVICES TIME: 12:43:06

REPRO INFILE(PKFILE) OUTFILE(BKPFILE)
IDC3302I ACTION ERROR ON XG00.OUT
IDC3309I ** RECORD X'8181818181' NOT WRITTEN. LENGTH INVALID
IDC0005I NUMBER OF RECORDS PROCESSED WAS 0
IDC0001I FUNCTION COMPLETED, HIGHEST CONDITION CODE WAS 8

IDC0002I IDCAMS PROCESSING COMPLETE. MAXIMUM CONDITION CODE WAS 8

Raghavendra P K · New User Joined: 24 Aug 2007 Posts: 24 Location: bangalore

If you use DFSORT it works fine.