Replacing caharacters using utilities

manugeorge2004 · New User Joined: 17 Jun 2009 Posts: 38 Location: Denver

Hi

I have a requirement where I need to replace a set of characters to another set of characters using some utility. The characters can appear in any position in the record.

For eg. LRECL is 80 bytes. I need to check for 'ABCD' anywhere in the record and replace it with 'ZZZZ'. A COBOL INSPECT statement can do this. But I wanted to check whether any utility like SORT or SYNCTOOL can do this.

Thanks and Regards
Manu

Bill Woodger · Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 3:52 am

Have a look at FINDREP (Find and Replace) in your documentation for your Sort product.

sandip_mainframe · New User Joined: 20 Sep 2006 Posts: 63 Location: pune

Please try below option

Arun Raj · Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 9:02 am

Sandip,

Your control statements seem to start from pos-1 which will result in syntax error if someone tries to execute it. Use "Code" tags to preserve alignment when you post some code.

sandip_mainframe · New User Joined: 20 Sep 2006 Posts: 63 Location: pune

Arun,

Thanks for the correction. By mistake I typed control statements from 1st position.

Thanks,
Sandip Walsinge
Walsinge Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Pune