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Converting s9(9) comp field to char


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l.nethaji

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 22, 2016 12:14 pm
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Hi ,

I need to convert the s9(9) comp field to CHAR.

The Data looks as below

000001 ãI BE BLMN CORP
000002 éI BE BMNO CORP
000003 $A PE HELLOC JAKE
000004 ±A PE HELLOC TOM

The first 4 bytes belongs to custid which I need to convert to CHAR

Could you please help me to resolve this issue.

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l.nethaji

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 22, 2016 12:23 pm
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Hi ,

The input file looks as below .

ãI BE BLMN CORP
éI BE BMNO CORP
$A PE HELLOC JAKE
±A PE HELLOC TOM

My bad the rows got pasted in my previous post.Apologies.

I just need to convert it to CHAR

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L.nethaji
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l.nethaji

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 22, 2016 12:44 pm
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HI,

I tried the below JCL .

//JS111 EXEC PGM=SORT
//SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SORTIN DD DISP=SHR,DSN=ACSTNS1.ACST831P.TB01008
//SORTOUT DD DSN=ACSTN&LVL..ACST831P.TB01008.OUTPUT,
// DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE),
// DCB=(RECFM=FB,BLKSIZE=0,DSORG=PS),
// UNIT=SYSDA,SPACE=&SPC1
//SYSIN DD *
OPTION COPY
OUTREC FIELDS=(1,4,BI,CH,LENGTH=11,7,2)
//*

Its giving Syntax error in CH. I am able to do only for converting to numeric edited field.Not able to do it for Char.

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Bill Woodger

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 22, 2016 2:14 pm
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Code tags. Use them.

If you don't post the error, why should we guess at it?

Have you looked up the error by its message-code?

The is no concept of conversion to "CH".

Since you've not indicated how you want the output, just see what 1,4,BI does. If that's not good enough for you, look at TO= and LENGTH= or the specification of an EDIT mask (EDIT=). Even others.

Can you point to the part of the manual which made you think you could convert to CH? I can attempt to arrange to get it fixed.
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