Want to process the file(read and write) based on the length

Gopinath_Natrayan · New User Joined: 20 Dec 2006 Posts: 2 Location: India

Hi,

Iam having an input file of variable format...it contains records of different length.I want to process the file(read and write) based on the length..
please help me in doing this

Thanks in advance

expat · Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 12:57 pm

Bytes 1&2 of the RDW contain the length of the record.

I'm a little intrigued as to why the record length should be the deciding factor of whether a record is processed or not. Can you elaborate on that.

Gopinath_Natrayan · New User Joined: 20 Dec 2006 Posts: 2 Location: India

hi expat,

my requirement is my input file has different record of different layout..i have to process according to the layout..

expat · Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 1:16 pm

And you have the record layouts from the creating program ?
Are there any readily available pointers such as a record type
e.g. If record type = 3 then use this layout ?

prasadvrk · Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 1:30 pm

As expat suggested generally you will have a field called record type in the input record which will tell you which layout needs to be used for that record. Check for that field and accordingly move the input record into respective layout.

William Thompson · Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 2:15 pm

mmwife · Super Moderator Joined: 30 May 2003 Posts: 1592

Hi,

Try the link below. my suggestion is in the last post in the thread.

ibmmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?t=11754&highlight=varying

Or you can put all the 01 rec descriptions in the FD and use the rec-type fields in the recs to decide which datanames to use, as suggested by others earlier.