Output file with only the numeric data

KsquareD · New User Joined: 14 Feb 2008 Posts: 4 Location: India

Can a job be employed to accept a file containing both alphabetic and numeric data in its records and create an output file with only the numeric data present from the input file.

CICS Guy · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 8:01 pm

dick scherrer · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 9:20 pm

Hello,

If you post a sample "input file" and show what should be written to the output file and explain the rules, someone will probably have a suggestion.

Include the file attributes for the input and output.

Frank Yaeger · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 10:51 pm

Ksquared,

Take a look at the "Check for a numeric string" Smart DFSORT Trick at:

www.ibm.com/servers/storage/support/software/sort/mvs/tricks/

and see if you can use that technique (INCLUDE with NUM) to do what you want.

If not, then provide more information on what you're trying to.