Reformatting and Incrementing hex values.

Mira · New User Joined: 08 Mar 2010 Posts: 2 Location: Germany

Hi All,

In the output file, I need to reformat the hex values in incrementing order
Currently it shows 01,0A and 0B.

XX NUMBER IS 12
EE00DEDCCD4CE4FF4444444444444
77015442590920120000000000000
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YY NAME IS AB
EE00DCDC4CE444CC4444444444444
880A5145092000120000000000000
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ZZ ADDRESS IS MAX STR
EE00CCCDCEE44CE4DCE4EED444444
990B1449522009204170239000000
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After reformat, hex values should be 01,02 and 03 instead of 01,0A and 0B

Can you help here.Thanks

Regards
Mira

CICS Guy · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 8:34 pm

As Dick would say welcome, etc....

Just describe the field as a binary field and add one to it each time.

SEQNUM?
For a BI format sequence number, the maximum value DFSORT can create is limited to the lesser of 8 bytes of ones (X'FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF') or the number of ones that will fit in the specified output field length (n). If a sequence number overflows this limit, it will be truncated to the lesser of 8 bytes or the output field length, and then subsequently incremented as usual.

Mira · New User Joined: 08 Mar 2010 Posts: 2 Location: Germany

Thanks a lot for the quick hint on SEQNUM. It has worked as required!