ICEMAN utility and the Control Card statement

sushilchandran · New User Joined: 21 Jun 2005 Posts: 22

Hi,

Can anyone pls help me out with ICEMAN utility and the Control Card statement

OPTION COPY
OUTFIL NODETAIL,REMOVECC,
TRAILER1=(COUNT=(M11,LENGTH=15))

Wat might be this performing. I know it takes will pull out only the Header and Trailer only but somewhat confused about REMOVECC and other parameters. It will be really great if someone can provide a document which provides a detailed explanation about the tool

Sushil Chandran

Devzee · Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:46 am

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 12:25 pm

Hi,

As suggested, please search the forum for such details. You'll get some intresting hits which'll provide the information more than which You might expect.

However, for complete details on all of the parameters of DFSORT's OUTFIL statement, see:

publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/ICE1CA20/3.13?DT=20060615185603

You can access all of the DFSORT books online from:

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Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 12:36 pm

And yeah,

In Your example:

- REMOVECC removes ANSI control characters from the report.
- NODETAIL prevents detail records from being written to OUTFIL.
- M11 specifies one of twenty-seven pre-defined edit masks (M0-M26) for presenting numeric data.
- TRAILER1 Specifies the report trailer to be used for the reports produced for this OUTFIL group.

However, all these details are well described in above links.

Frank Yaeger · Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:23 pm

Sushil,

If you're not familiar with DFSORT and DFSORT's ICETOOL, I'd suggest reading through "z/OS DFSORT: Getting Started". It's an excellent tutorial, with lots of examples, that will show you how to use DFSORT, DFSORT's ICETOOL and DFSORT Symbols. You can access it online, along with all of the other DFSORT books, from:

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