SYNCSORT Converting FB to VB

hemantheng · New User Joined: 13 Feb 2008 Posts: 8 Location: US

Hi,

I have a VB file of 192 LRECL(This can have records of 57, 72, 192 bytes).
I am doing a sort which will change one of the field values and write to a 192 bytes FB file.
Then with one more sort, i am converting FB to VB of 192 LRECL.
sort card looks like this,
OPTION COPY
OUTFIL FNAMES=SORTOUT,FTOV,OUTREC=(1,192)

The question is, all the records in the final VB file will be of 192 bytes(even 57 and 72 LRECL records are converted into 192 LRECL). So when i do a COMPAREX am getting differences in all the records.
Is there any correct way of doing it?

Thanks.

Alissa Margulies · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 2:24 am

Try this:

srinathangya · New User Joined: 19 Dec 2005 Posts: 77

Will U pls let me know how to copy a variable length file into a FB file?
Pls help me with the code :-)

Reg,
Srinath.

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 1:24 pm

Hello,

Check these links,
www.ibmmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?t=28877&highlight=vtof
another one..
www.ibmmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?t=22149&highlight=vtof

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