size of var length rec

keerthi · New User Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 25

1. How can u find the size of the variable length records?
2. Assume that a job contains 200 steps but i want to exec first 50 steps
Without using cond & restart parameters?

Thanks in advance

lucky · New User Joined: 01 Jun 2005 Posts: 12 Location: Croatia

Hi Keerthi!

To see the size of each record, I guess you could write a utility that would open the file as undefined format, and then you could read the RDW value.

But there is probably a better way, I just don't know of any

Lucky

mmwife · Super Moderator Joined: 30 May 2003 Posts: 1592

In the FD code: RECORD VARYING FROM 1 TO (you put the max rec len here or 32K decimal) DEPENDING ON WS-LEN

Then in WS define WS-LEN PIC 9(6).

After the READ WS-LEN will contain the len of the rec just read. To WRITE make sure WS-LEN contains the correct len.

If you WRITE w/o changind WS-LEN you will WRITE the same len as you READ.

subhasis_50 · Moderator Joined: 09 Mar 2005 Posts: 363 Location: Earth

Hi,
Ans of your second qns
Use a // parameter after the step 50. It will not execute any other step after your step50. So previous 50 steps will execute only.