Set return code based on Input data

cvijay784 · New User Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 54 Location: Colombo

Hi,

I would like to set MAXCC=4 when the 1st byte of the input record is 0 in Syncsort. My existing sort card is given below. Can you please help me how i can achieve it?

Sort Fields=copy
Outrec fields=(2:1, 495)
End

With Thanks
Vijay

Robert Sample · Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2015 7:17 pm

Terminology is critical in IT, where similar terms may mean very different things. And MAXCC is a term specific to the use of IDCAMS -- and ONLY IDCAMS. It is wrong to refer to MAXCC when talking about a SORT product. You probably want the step condition code to be set to 4.

cvijay784 · New User Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 54 Location: Colombo

Hi,

Yes. I would like to set the condition code to 4. Please advise me.

Thanks
Vijay

Bill Woodger · Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2015 7:27 pm

The other place you see MAXCC, which I think is where the confusion arises, is the $HASP165 message produced by NOTIFY on the JOB card.

Your existing SORT Control Cards are creating 496-byte records. The first byte is blank, and a copy of the input data from byte two for a length of 495.

It is unclear how that relates to your task.

I'd suggest an INCLUDE for the value you want to test for. An OPTION STOPAFT=1, an OUTFIL which in the JCL is dummied-out. Then the SyncSORT option on OUTFIL to produce an RC of 4 if there is data on that OUTFIL dataset.

Except for wondering how that comes close to what you've come up with, so I don't know.