'BOUND'. Copying only a range of columns.

genesis786 · Active User Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 92 Location: London

Hi,

I am faced with a problem where I want to copy records from one file into other but only upto some columns. e.g.

01XXXXXXXXX MMM 56559 0001212

This is the record in old file. In new file I want only like the following:

01XXXXXXXXX MMM 56559

Is this possible using TSO/ISPF.

I tried something like this:

==> BOUND 1 30;Cut .zl .zf

and then pasted in new file. But didn't work. What am i missing?

Rahul.

UmeySan · Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 3:49 pm Post subject:

Hi !

Fist you have to delete the not wanted chars in old file.
This you could achive with BOUNDS. Set Boundary for chars you want to
delete. then use max-shift left to delete. then cut & paste to new file.

Example:

AAAAA XXXX
AAAAA XXXX

bounds 10 80
((99
cut
bounds

Regards, UmeySan

genesis786 · Active User Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 92 Location: London

Tried something like this: (it workrd)

==> Bounds 70 *

==> c all p'^=' ''

it removed all unwanted characters from the rightmost positions...

basically wanted to have the junk removed from the file. copying wasn't required i realized later.

Thanks!

genesis786 · Active User Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 92 Location: London

one more thing was that - until i had set 'NUMBER OFF' or the 'UNN' TSO was not recognizing columns after 72.

==> bounds 70 80 gave error saying 'INVALID RIGHT BOUND'.

but making 'NUMBER OFF' it started recognizing till 80!

You know how and why?