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Nirav721
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Hi,
I am wondering if there is any way to insert 4 bytes in middle of a record. I want to shift everything over by 4 bytes without too much hassel. I do not want to get into moving blocks of record from one place to next and then attaching everything...?
Any suggestions are appreciated!!
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Nirav721
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| I forgot to mention that this is in assembler...Thanks! |
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dick scherrer
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Hello Nirav and welcome to the forums,
Unless i misunderstand what you want to do, you could simply define a new area that has 3 "pieces" - the first is however many bytes are needed before the new 4 bytes, the second is the new 4 bytes, and the 3rd is the remainder of the bytes from the original record.
You could MVC (or MVCL if needed) the first and last parts of the record to the new areas and put whatever you want in the new 4 bytes. |
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CICS Guy
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| Nirav721 wrote: |
| I am wondering if there is any way to insert 4 bytes in middle of a record. |
Have you considered the extremely simple application of a sort copy reformat? |
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Nirav721
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Hi, thanks for the suggestions...
The reason why I do not want to get into defining '3' blocks is because I could have a record where I might need to insert the 4 bytes multiple times. Basically, I am going through bunch of macros, and I need to update these records that have DATE field defined as PL4 CYYMMDD, to be CL8 MMDDYYYY. There are some macros that might have this 1 time, and some would have 10 or even 20 times. So, I am trying to find out if there is a 'seamless' way of doing this...? |
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CICS Guy
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[quote="Nirav721I am going through bunch of macros, and I need to update these records that have DATE field defined as PL4 CYYMMDD, to be CL8 MMDDYYYY. There are some macros that might have this 1 time, and some would have 10 or even 20 times. So, I am trying to find out if there is a 'seamless' way of doing this...?[/quote]Seamless, I doubt it.....
You'll probably just have to bite the bullet and do it the long way....  |
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Nirav721
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| Ouch...there is a big hit in productivity for sure!! Time to become a robot and just repeat brainless work.....gotta love assembler for it! |
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