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[tattva]

Hi ,

I need to zero out out-rec starting from Pos : 43 to Pos :250..

Can any one let me know the syntax for this using SYNCSORT?

Thanks,
Tattva

[kolusu]

tattva,

Post detailed information on what you're trying to accomplish. Do not make people guess what you mean. This will give you a much better chance of getting a good answer to your question.

What kind of zeroes? Binary zeroes or character '0' ?

Kolusu

PS: Please post in the right forum. This should be posted in the utilities forum. I am moving it there
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[tattva]

Hi kolusu,

Some are COMP-3 and some are COMP.

The problem am facing here is there 17 comp FILEDS which need to be zeroed out and 12 COMP fields.

Thanks,
Tattva

[kolusu]

Tattva,

For comp-3 fields you need to populate the Sign also. Assuming that you have a 4 byte comp-3 field you need to code

[tattva]

Hi Kolusu,

Thanks a lot for the reply..

I have one more ques..

say i have a COMP-3 field which is 100 byte in length.. then do we have to insert 000... ( 100 times) to zero out this field?

Thanks,
Tattva

[kolusu]

[Phantom]

Tattva,

I guess you got what Kolusu is trying to say. You cannot have any numeric field in mainframe which is greater than 18 bytes (in extended more - 32 bytes). When you take up a COMP-3 field, the last half bit of it would be sign-bit. So you cannot force it to be a Zero.

So, show us the split up of fields in the 100 bytes and we can get back to you where to put zeroes and where to put sign.

Thanks,
Phantom

[tattva]

Hi Kolusu,

Sorry for the dealy in replying..

I was just giving any example over there..

Here's exactly what i want.

I have 20 COMP-3 fields length :- 10 bytes and

12 COMP fileds :- length 4 bytes.

Thanks,
Tattva

[kolusu]

tattva,

For 20 comp-3 fields of 10 bytes length, you can code