Copy a VB file to FB.

arvind.m · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 3:54 pm

Hi all,

I want to copy a VB file with LRECL=24 into a FB file LRECL=80. i tried with IDCAMS,IEBGENR,SORT but it failed. Is there any other utility or jcl to copy a VB file into FB file.

thanks,

expat · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 4:01 pm

SORT usually works exceptionally well for this.

Please post your code and error messages from the SORT step.

arvind.m · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 6:19 pm

i just used SORT FIELDS=COPY with input beign the VB file and the output file i have defined as FB and LRECL=80

expat · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 6:25 pm

That's a start, but you need to specify that that you are converting from one RECFM to another.

Try this simple little code (DFSORT) but should work for either DFSORT or SYNCSORT - I think.

CICS Guy · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 6:29 pm

Have you looked at the manual?
Look at VTOF or CONVERT can be used with OUTREC or BUILD to convert variable-length input records to fixed-length output records.....

arvind.m · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 7:11 pm

I actually got the result using FILEAID thru jcl. Sorry i did not refer the DFSORT manual. But there is a small mistake by expat (see the outrec field)

expat · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 8:45 pm