SYNCSORT for retrieveing binary values

suneelv · New User Joined: 26 Aug 2008 Posts: 52 Location: inida

Hi,

I want to retrieve values 11 and 1 starting from position 5 and length of 2. This is VB file.i have used following control card.

OPTION COPY
INCLUDE COND=((7,2,BI,EQ,11,OR,1)

i got the syntax error. please help me to retrieve 11 and 1 in starting position 3 and length of 2.

regards
suneel

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 8:37 pm

you are indicating Binary with the BI.
I imagine your constants, 11 and 1, are not coded as Binary Constants.

COBOL would be X'11' and X'01'.

I know that if your include condition was for CH (characters) the constants would be coded as C'11' and C'01'.

Arun Raj · Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 9:36 pm

suneelv,

Since you already have a topic in discussion for the same problem, you could have replied to the same rather than starting a new topic.

Alissa Margulies · Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 1:58 am

The reason for the syntax error is that the INCLUDE statement is not coded correctly. Try this:

Alissa Margulies · Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 9:02 pm

(sorry Gerry - I deleted your post by accident. But thanks for pointing out the extra paren. I made the correction in my previous post).

-Alissa

Alissa Margulies · Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 9:10 pm

suneelv,

It was brought back to my attention that you originally stated that your data was binary. If that is the case, then you can specify the following: