JCL to create a new fomatted file from a input file

prashant tyagi · New User Joined: 26 Apr 2013 Posts: 3 Location: india

Hi All,

I am new to this forum writing but I got one situation where I have to create a new formatted flat file which will take input from another file.

Now this input data are seprated from a single space like below

prashant tyagi · New User Joined: 26 Apr 2013 Posts: 3 Location: india

It did not come out correctly...the desired output is below(where _ is for spaces in mainframe)

123 ABC__ DEF__ 54C 897-2345 and so on
234 ERFGD PQRES 69D 420_____ and so on

Thanks

Bill Woodger · Posted: Wed May 21, 2014 12:53 pm

Since you have posted in the JCL forum, can we assume you want to use SyncSort to do this?

If so, you want to look at PARSE in the manual and find examples of its use. You need something very simple, as you have nothing complex to identify the different elements, and then all you need to do is make them a fixed size.

To keep the spacing you require when formatting a post, highlight the text and click the Code button. Or manually type the opening

prashant tyagi · New User Joined: 26 Apr 2013 Posts: 3 Location: india

Thanks Bill for the suggestion..let me try this and yes I needed one JCL for this

Ed Goodman · Active Member Joined: 08 Jun 2011 Posts: 556 Location: USA

I've actually become demoralized by the "Can JCL do this" question.

I figured after a few years, people would know better, and start calling it a "batch utility" or something better than "a JCL."

dick scherrer · Posted: Wed May 21, 2014 7:47 pm

Hi Ed,

Akatsukami · Posted: Wed May 21, 2014 9:18 pm

Ed Goodman · Active Member Joined: 08 Jun 2011 Posts: 556 Location: USA

I think my issue comes from the fact that it's a constant stream of new programmers. My introverted world view sees this board as kind of a person, and I just kind of expected them to 'get it' by now.

It's like throwing sand in the wind though, nothing sticks, nothing stays, no one looks back and sees the pile of information laying right there at their feet. They just throw a new question out like it's the first time.

There was a series of commercials for a telephone company called Vonage. The hook was showing a huge pile of crumpled up phone bills and then a person would stand there and crumple up their phone bill and throw it on the pile. That's what it's like now.

I mean, this isn't the fresher board. I expect it there.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=azDCNPAHWLg

Pandora-Box · Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 7:13 pm

There are places where they still call JCL as a "Language"

Nic Clouston · Posted: Fri May 23, 2014 12:41 am

Well, the L in JCL is for Language - it is just that it is not a progamming language.

I regard my run decks as a memo from me to the OS - please Mr OS, do these things for me. The JCL does nothing itself - it simply transfers the request.

Akatsukami · Posted: Fri May 23, 2014 1:06 am