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swapnam
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No..please ignore the first line..its the line number that shows in the file
only the last 2 lines represent blank like..hope iam correct
so its
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0444444444444444444444444...
C000000000000000000000000...
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Arun Raj
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| what are psuedo-blank bytes |
What I meant is those bytes which 'look' blank, but has some data in non-displayable format or NE X'40' . I m not sure whether you want to omit these records also. |
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swapnam
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Hi Arun,
Yes..i just want to omit all records which look blanks/which are blank.
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
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| i just want to omit all records which look blanks |
Then you must define them. . . There is no syntax for "looks like blank". There are other values that "don't quite look like blank" but are not a usable letter/number/special character that you need to consider.
You can either specify which value(s) to include or which to exclude.
"Real" blanks are easy - they are x'40'. |
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Frank Yaeger
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swapnam,
If you want to omit records that have X'0C' in position 1 and blanks in positions 2-133, you can use this OMIT statement:
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OMIT COND=(1,1,BI,EQ,X'0C',AND,2,132,CH,EQ,C' ')
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If that's not what you want to do, then you need to give a better explanation of what you want to do. |
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enrico-sorichetti
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just a reminder,
since the TS is talking about a record length of 133,
probably ( or rather, certainly ) the recfm is FBA/FBM
so the first byte will contain the printer control char,
to check for blank lines the test should start at column 2 for 132 bytes |
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Frank Yaeger
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That may well be true.
I don't think 0C would be an FBA control character. It could be an FBM control character - I couldn't find 0C listed in my yellow card, but it certainly could be a machine code (I found 0A and 0B).
In which case:
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OMIT COND=(2,132,CH,EQ,C' ')
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should work. |
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Garry Carroll
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| It is the hex value of Positive sign. |
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think that you are pretty well mistaken in your statement that '0C'X equates to charachter +
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I would think that the X'0C' is a packed decimal positive zero?
Garry. |
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expat
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| Well, to me a positive sign is + and in my book thats '4E'X. |
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