Extract only 500 to 1000 Records from 10000 Records

karthikuma · New User Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 62

hi,

i'm having flat file of 10000 records in cobol,but i want only 500 to 1000 ,how can i do it.only y using cobol syntax(not by using dfsort),plz any one give me sugestion.

Regards,
kumar

asr1983 · New User Joined: 31 May 2005 Posts: 11

hi kumar,
As you are saying it as a flat file, you must be having a file structure for it.
So, you can skip the first 500 records and then fetch the next 500 records .

Ex : perform para-1 varying x from 1 by 1 until x = 1000

in para-1 you will be dispaying the records.

as the loop will be continuing until x = 1000 , you will get 500 to 1000 records

jkbytes · Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 11:55 am

Hi Karthi,

I agree with asr, but you can still make your job easy if you repro it to a ksds, and then use the key value for dynamic access from 500 to 1000 records.