Search for a string at a specific location in a GDG

geek_mohit · New User Joined: 19 May 2006 Posts: 23

Hi,

I need to find a string at a particular location in a GDG, some of the generations of the GDG have been migrated and the SRCHFOR utility does not really work for the migrated GDG generations and am also not able to mention the position in the file where am looking for the serach string.

I have serached the forum for this but could not really find anything.

Would I be able to get a list of all files in which the string exists at that "specific localtion" somehow.

Terry Heinze · Posted: Fri May 08, 2015 11:33 pm

I know of no way without first recalling the migrated generations.

geek_mohit · New User Joined: 19 May 2006 Posts: 23

Would it be possible for me to extract all records from all gnerations of a GDG with certain characters at a specific location in all the generations through some sort utility...??

vasanthz · Posted: Sun May 10, 2015 7:23 pm

Yes ofcourse, just use the GDG base as input.
That way all the generations would be read from oldest to the newest.

Then use a sort step with an INCLUDE condition