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Bindu Akurathi

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 14, 2024 2:25 pm
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Hi! I have the file with Fb format having data as below, I want to enclose each data element with double quotes ("") and comma between each value for .CSV format conversion.

Input
1014202400:00:35ABCDEFGH1234567890IJKLMNO
OUTPUT
"10142024","00:00:35","ABCDEFGH","1234567890","IJKLMNO".

Please suggest me how can I get the desired output.
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enrico-sorichetti

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 14, 2024 3:05 pm
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www.ibm.com/support/pages/system/files/inline-files/$FILE/sorttrck.pdf

pretty old but still useful
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Joerg.Findeisen

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 14, 2024 6:24 pm
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Are the fields floating, or is it just fixed lengths as shown? If fixed length, then why not just use BUILD=(p,m, ..), and insert the missing characters?
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sergeyken

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 14, 2024 10:52 pm
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Bindu Akurathi wrote:
Hi! I have the file with Fb format having data as below, I want to enclose each data element with double quotes ("") and comma between each value for .CSV format conversion.

Input
Code:
1014202400:00:35ABCDEFGH1234567890IJKLMNO

OUTPUT
Code:
"10142024","00:00:35","ABCDEFGH","1234567890","IJKLMNO"
.

Please suggest me how can I get the desired output.


Advice #1: try to open any SORT manual.

Code:
//SYMNAMES DD  *
DateField,1,10,CH
TimeField,*,8,CH
Letters1,*,8,CH
Digits1,*,10,CH
Letters2,*,7,CH
Sep1,C'"'
Sep2,C'","'
//*
//SYSIN    DD  *
 SORT FIELDS=COPY
 OUTREC BUILD=(Sep1,
               DateField,Sep2,
               TimeField,Sep2,
               Letters1,Sep2,
               Digits1,Sep2,
               Letters2,Sep1)
 END
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Bindu Akurathi

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 15, 2024 7:40 pm
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Thank you all for your suggestions, i did try to do with outrec build, somehow the jcl throwing errors. Finally, i used inrec build =(1,10,JFY=(SHIFT=LEFT,LEAD=C'"',TRAIL=C'"', LENGTH=12),C',').....SO on and it gave the result as I wanted
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Joerg.Findeisen

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 15, 2024 8:15 pm
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It must be DateField,1,8,CH , but works as expected. Don't make your code more complex than necessary.

Remember that NOTHING is thrown in z/OS.
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sergeyken

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 15, 2024 8:34 pm
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You need to learn how to post messages to forums not insulting other people.

Bindu Akurathi wrote:
Thank you all for your suggestions, i did try to do with outrec build, somehow the jcl throwing errors. Finally, i used
Code:
INREC BUILD=(1,10,JFY=(SHIFT=LEFT,LEAD=C'"',TRAIL=C'"', LENGTH=12),C',')
.....SO on and it gave the result as I wanted


It would be also nice if you:
0) presented here THE EXACT COPY of what you tried, and what you've got?
1) explained what "somehow the jcl throwing errors" stands for?
2) explained what is the goal of using JFY=(...)?
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sergeyken

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 15, 2024 8:36 pm
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Joerg.Findeisen wrote:
It must be DateField,1,8,CH , but works as expected. Don't make your code more complex than necessary.

Remember that NOTHING is thrown in z/OS.


Top secret info:
That was the deliberate typo, added to check: if TS can understand the hints rather than full copy-and-paste code samples.
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