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spainj125
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Location: Atlanta, GA
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| Hi, I am wanting to use ALTSEQ on a file to translate some invalid characters that are being sent in only on the first name and last name fields. I do not want to ALTSEQ the whole file because the characters to appear in other places within the file but the request was to only to make those changes to the first and last name fields....Also I need to do multiple translations in order to check and translate different possible characters within these fields...But I DO want to produce the whole file in the OUTREC. Is this possible? How would I code this? Thank you.. |
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Skolusu
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Location: San Jose
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spainj125,
use the following control cards
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//SYSIN DD *
SORT FIELDS=COPY
OUTREC OVERLAY=(p1:p1,m1,TRAN=ALTSEQ,p2:p2,m2,TRAN=ALTSEQ)
ALTSEQ CODE=(....)
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/* p1 = position of your firstname field
/* m1 = length of your firstname field
/* p2 = position of your lastname field
/* m2 = length of your lastname field
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spainj125
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| Thanks for your help....Will do.... |
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spainj125
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| Ok, I did the above and it worked...But this only works for one character...I need to translate multiple characters within the same field...I have tried several different syntax and they all fail or just tranlate only the first character....Can I use multiple ALTSEQ's within one SORT? |
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
Yes.
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| ALTSEQ CODE=(0040,FF40) |
This would translate x'00' to a space and x'FF' to a space (x'40'). They just need to be defined in from/to pairs. |
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spainj125
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| Cool...Yep thanks...was looking for a specific example for syntax but hard to find on the net |
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Frank Yaeger
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ALTSEQ is rather limited. FINDREP and/or IFTHEN clauses with FINDREP can do a lot more.
You can find complete information on DFSORT's FINDREP function at:
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Frank Yaeger
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