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kalaikala

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PostPosted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 12:01 pm
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Hi Frank Yaeger,

When I use below sort with empty file i am getting output as a space record.

Code:

  SORT FIELDS=(01,05,CH,A,
               06,05,CH,A,
               11,10,CH,A,
               21,10,CH,A),EQUALS
  OUTFIL REMOVECC,NODETAIL,
  SECTIONS=(01,20,TRAILER3=(1,50))


Help me to ignore this space record.
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Frank Yaeger

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PostPosted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 9:00 pm
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Those control statements give you one blank TRAILER3 output record when SORTIN has no records.

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Help me to ignore this space record.


What do you mean by this? Do you want an empty output file when the input file is empty, or do you want something else?
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kalaikala

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 4:17 pm
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I want an empty output file when the input file is empty.
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Skolusu

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 11:41 pm
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kalaikala,

The following DFSORT/ICETOOL JCL will give you the desired results. The LAST parm on the SELECT operator does the same as the sections with trailer3. I also combined all your sort fields as 1 single field because they are continuous fields with the same format. Select operator has EQUALS as default

Code:

//STEP0100 EXEC PGM=ICETOOL   
//TOOLMSG  DD SYSOUT=*         
//DFSMSG   DD SYSOUT=*         
//IN       DD DSN=Your input file,
//            DISP=SHR
//OUT      DD DSN=Your output file,
//            DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE),
//            UNIT=SYSDA,
//            SPACE=(CYL,(X,Y),RLSE)
//TOOLIN   DD *                                       
  SELECT FROM(IN) TO(OUT) ON(1,20,CH) LAST USING(CTL1)
//CTL1CNTL DD *                                       
  SORT FIELDS=(01,30,CH,A)                             
  OUTFIL FNAMES=OUT,BUILD=(1,50)   


Hope this helps...

Cheers
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kalaikala

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 11:37 am
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Thanks Skolusu!

Is it possible to solve this problem using the below SORT card itself?.

Code:

  SORT FIELDS=(01,05,CH,A,
               06,05,CH,A,
               11,10,CH,A,
               21,10,CH,A),EQUALS
  OUTFIL REMOVECC,NODETAIL,
  SECTIONS=(01,20,TRAILER3=(1,50))
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