Sort Card for sorting a file of length 766

ajay_udl · New User Joined: 10 Oct 2006 Posts: 9

Hi,

Could you please help me in sorting a file with length 766 and put filler to make the LRECL as 1190.I wrote a sort card as below

expat · Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 12:10 pm Post subject:

What does the fine manual say about the OUTREC statement.

You are taking 13 bytes from pos 2 and two bytes from pos 737 of the input, and then filling with blanks. Your output is what I would expect from that statement.

gcicchet · Active User Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 154

Hi,
the outrec fields say

copy 13 bytes from pos 2
copy 02 bytes from pos 737
followed by 1175 spaces

hence the results are correct.

Gerry

gcicchet · Active User Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 154

Hi Expat,
I didn't try to steal your thunder, your answer wasn't posted when I replied.

Gerry

ajay_udl · New User Joined: 10 Oct 2006 Posts: 9

Thanks expat,I got it

expat · Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 12:19 pm Post subject:

Frank Yaeger · Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 8:42 pm Post subject:

ajay_udl,

Well, people told you what was wrong with the control statements you used, but they didn't tell you the best way to do what you want to do which would be: