Joined: 09 Mar 2011 Posts: 7312 Location: Inside the Matrix
If you poke the message reference into a search-engine, you should get to the description in the KnowledgeCentre, which will lead to this:
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the length for a field with a format other than SS was greater than 256
I suggest you use the match-marker in the REFORMAT statement, a ? (question-mark) which you then test for 1 (on 1, not on 2), 2 (on 2 not on 1) and B (a match), which will simplify things (you don't need the FILL) and to do your test you'll have to split the field into multiple ones.
Joined: 17 Oct 2006 Posts: 2481 Location: @my desk
Ron,
Bill has pointed out above exactly what needs to be done,
ie., to use the match marker (?) instead of the FILL approach. That is just a better way of getting the matched and unmatched records.
thnx very much.
When the match marker has the value B does that mean that the key, as specified in JOINKEYS, appears in both files?
But concerning the B value I want to know two situations:
1. key in both files and no values of attributes changed
2. key in both files but there is a change of values of atributes
Joined: 09 Mar 2011 Posts: 7312 Location: Inside the Matrix
You test for the B, and then, as Arun has shown, split your test for more than 256 characters into multiple tests for 256-byte fields, twice, and a final one for the balance of the bytes, connected with AND.
