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ace · Beginner Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Posts: 58 Topics: 23

Hi All
I have about 20 files (FB) of different LRECL. I need to concatenate all these files into a single file and sort them on a key. I know using SORT we can pad spaces to each file and make them of same LRECL. But just wondering is there any other utility/method that will accept all these 20 files as input and produce a concatenated output file ?

kolusu · Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 10:39 am Post subject:

Ace,

As far as I know you cannot concatenate different LRECL files of FB recfm. So you need to copy individual files to largest lrecl file by padding with spaces or low-values.

Hope this helps...

Cheers

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ace · Beginner Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Posts: 58 Topics: 23

Thanks Kolusu. Just a thought..Is there any tools availabale in CBT tape? I gave a search in CBT but could not find a hit
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superk · Advanced Joined: 19 Dec 2002 Posts: 684 Topics: 5

Here are some (off-the-wall) thoughts:

1. PKZIP. Zip all 20 datasets into a single .zip archive. Then, Unzip the archive to a pre-determined dataset with the appropriate LRECL (and DISP=MOD, of course). The shorter-length datasets should pad out.

2. FTP. Similar to above. GET each of the datasets to a single pre-determined dataset (again with DISP=MOD) and, as above, the shorter-length datasets should pad out; or, MPUT all 20 datasets to another server (such as Windows or Unix), and then APPEND the 20 files from the other server back into a single pre-allocated dataset.

ace · Beginner Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Posts: 58 Topics: 23

Thank you for the tips Superk. Let me try out with PKZIP.
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