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IEBGENER to copy from FB to VB and remove trailing blanks


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Mike.Fulton

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 24, 2019 7:20 am
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Hi

I have been reading: www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.idau100/u1127.htm and have had success in copying an FB dataset to a VB dataset (actually, an HFS file - but I think the problem is common to both an HFS file and VB dataset).
I have:
Code:

//COPY EXEC PGM=IEBGENER
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSUT1 DD DSN=FULTONM.USER.JCL(FILE),DISP=SHR
//SYSUT2 DD PATH='/tmp/f',FILEDATA=TEXT,LRECL=84,RECFM=VB,BLKSIZE=32720
//SYSIN DD *
    GENERATE MAXFLDS=1
    RECORD FIELD=(80,1,,1)
/*

This works, but the records are padded out to 80 bytes (not surprisingly). Is there a way, short of writing a user exit, to instruct IEBGENER to truncate all trailing blanks when copying to a VB dataset? If not, is there an alternate utility I could use (other than the Unix System Services cp, which has other problems), to do this truncation?
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expat

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 24, 2019 7:18 pm
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I would recommend using the SORT product at your site.

There are loads of examples of doing this and the other way round in the forum.
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sergeyken

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 26, 2019 6:36 pm
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Code:
 SORT FIELDS=COPY
 OUTFIL FTOV,VLTRIM=C' '
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Mike.Fulton

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 27, 2019 12:27 am
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Thanks @expat! I will look and see if wort is free with the OS or if you have to buy it.
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