Current Requirement:
SOURCE File Length = 80 bytes.
Generate a report by Copying all the records that have the following strings at the position 28.
Code:
ABCDEF
STRING
STRNG2
PQRSTU
Note 1: String length is always fixed - 6 bytes
Note 2: Strings and/or String count may vary every fort-night.
Following SORT card achieves this.
Code:
SORT FIELDS=COPY
INCLUDE COND=(28,6,CH,EQ,C'ABCDEF',OR,
28,6,CH,EQ,C'STRING',OR,
28,6,CH,EQ,C'STRNG2',OR,
28,6,CH,EQ,C'PQRSTU')
Now, I would like to automate the process of generating the report as follows
1. To accept the strings in a flat file called INFILE from SOURCE file.
INFILE will have the strings like this
ABCDEF
STRING
STRNG2
PQRSTU
2. Write a SORT card that inputs the strings from INFILE
My question is, how to read the strings from INFILE and then copy the records from source file that matches the strings at position 28 ?
Joined: 09 Mar 2011 Posts: 7309 Location: Inside the Matrix
You read your dataset as SORTIN and get SORT to generate a dataset with the SORT Control Cards you need, and then use that dataset in your actual SORT step.
If there will always be four pieces of data, you won't have a problem identifying the last one...
If there will always be four pieces of data, you won't have a problem identifying the last one...
The number of strings will always change. So till now, I build an ADHOC job and ran it manually. Now, We would like to automate the process by keeping all the strings in a flat-file and to run every fort-night.
Joined: 16 Feb 2015 Posts: 13 Location: Madrid, Spain
In my opinion you could use joinkeys
something like this:
JOINKEYS F1=IN1,FIELDS=(28,6,A) <== the input file
JOINKEYS F2=IN2,FIELDS=(1,6,A) <== the strings file
REFORMAT FIELDS=(F1:1,72,F2:01,28) <== is an example
Joined: 09 Mar 2011 Posts: 7309 Location: Inside the Matrix
rinsio,
A working example would be interesting if you have a moment. I'm not sure how you intend to do it, but it would be useful (though resource-heavy) if it worked.
@rinsio, @ Bill Wooder,
Thanks for the sample code.
Code:
JOINKEYS F1=IN1,FIELDS=(28,6,A) <== the input file
JOINKEYS F2=IN2,FIELDS=(1,6,A) <== the strings file
REFORMAT FIELDS=(F1:1,80) <== is an example
OPTION COPY
OUTFIL FNAMES=OUT,BUILD=(1,80)
The above code worked for the criterion mentioned above. But found one exception now. I see few records from the SOURCE file contains the search strings in different position other than 28 as mentioned earlier. I'm trying to modify the SORT control card to cover the exception with search string (SS), but of no luck yet on it.
