How do i use Sections and Trailers with variable length reco

kalaikala · New User Joined: 21 Jul 2007 Posts: 27 Location: Chennai

Hi Mr. Frank Yeager,

I am getting error in below sort card when i use variable length file as an input. If i use Fixed length file its working fine.

SORT FIELDS=(07,8,CH,A,
15,04,BI,A,
19,15,CH,A,
44,10,CH,A),EQUALS
OUTFIL FNAMES=(SORTOUT),REMOVECC,NODETAIL,CONVERT
SECTIONS=(07,27,TRAILER3=(7,101))

Can you help me to solve this problem.

Frank Yaeger · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:00 pm

Kalai,

For the OUTFIL statement, you need a comma after CONVERT (VTOF) and you need a BUILD operand. Since you have NODETAIL, the BUILD operand can just have nX where n is the LRECL you want for the FB output data set. Something like this (note that TRAILER3 will pick up the data from the input record, not from the BUILD operand):

kalaikala · New User Joined: 21 Jul 2007 Posts: 27 Location: Chennai

Thanks you very much Mr. Frank Yaeger. Its works fine now.