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Sort card to copy the particular field from I/p to O/P file


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mkk157

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 7:02 pm
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Dear Expert,

My requirement is as below:

The length of the input file is 80 bytes and I want to copy a particular field from position 17 to 20 which is in Binary format to the first four bytes of the output file in the same Binary format.

And I want to keep all the remaining 76 bytes as spaces.

Can you provide me the SORT card for this.
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krisprems

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 7:42 pm
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Code:
//*******************************************************
//STEP1    EXEC PGM=SORT                                 
//SYSOUT   DD SYSOUT=*                                   
//SORTIN   DD DSN=I/P FILE FB/80                         
//SORTOUT  DD DSN=O/P FILE FB/80                         
//SYSIN    DD *                                         
           SORT FIELDS=COPY                             
  OUTREC OVERLAY=(17,4,80:X)                             
/*                                                       
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Frank Yaeger

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:25 pm
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Krisprems,

That won't work. 80:X in OVERLAY will just put a blank in position 80 - it will not put blanks in positions 5-80 as you seem to be assuming (overlay only changes the positions you tell it to change). 17-20 will have the original value instead of blanks.

The correct DFSORT job is:

Code:

//S1 EXEC PGM=ICEMAN
//SYSOUT   DD SYSOUT=*
//SORTIN   DD DSN=...  input file (FB/80)
//SORTOUT  DD DSN=...  output file (FB/80)
//SYSIN    DD *
  OPTION COPY
  OUTREC BUILD=(1:17,4,80:X)
/*


80:X in BUILD will put blanks in positions 5-80.
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