sorting when a record has multiple trailers

THINKSRINIII · New User Joined: 09 Jan 2009 Posts: 88 Location: India

hi there,

Could someone help me in sorting an input file based on column 7 to 11 when a record has any number of trailers. So, we must assume the occurrence of the next header as the end of previous record.
Input and output datasets : lrecl 400 FB

CICS Guy · Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 8:24 pm

Have you considered the possible use of WHEN=GROUP as illustrated in one of your prior topic Group operations: When trailer record repeats multiple times?

sqlcode1 · Active Member Joined: 08 Apr 2010 Posts: 577 Location: USA

I think you asked similar question in below post and Kolusu provided solution. You could have used your own post to get the answer.

www.ibmmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?t=49383

THINKSRINIII · New User Joined: 09 Jan 2009 Posts: 88 Location: India

hi cicsguy,

Indeed, I looked at that post and understood how to group records but need to know how to sort them. I have posted here and looking at the manual as well.

Thanks

Skolusu · Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 9:49 pm

THINKSRINIII,

why are you stuck so much on the multiple trailers as this is the 3rd post about a similar requirement. Please understand how WHEN=GROUP works. When you use BEGIN=(1,6,CH,EQ,C'HEADER') and it will consider the next 'n' records as 1 group until it finds another record which starts with HEADER. you don't need to use the END keyword here.

THINKSRINIII · New User Joined: 09 Jan 2009 Posts: 88 Location: India

hi kolusu,

Many thanks.. That solves many of my queries.