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[dragone_007]

Hello,

I've tryed the following JCL for creating and copying into a VSAM file the content of another VSAM:

[dbzTHEdinosauer]

RECSZ(15 25)

ICE217A 0 924 BYTE VARIABLE RECORD IS LONGER THAN 29 BYTE MAXIMUM FOR SORTOUT
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Dick Brenholtz
American living in Varel, Germany

[dragone_007]

Thanks a lot Mr.Brenholtz,

How can I set correctly RECSZ in order to have 924 byte variable record for SORTOUT which is now defined as RECSZ(15 25) ? Thank a lot for your time.

Best regards
Denis

[dbzTHEdinosauer]

i would suggest determining the RECSZ of your input vsam file
and use that to define your output vsam file.
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Dick Brenholtz
American living in Varel, Germany

[kolusu]

dragone_007,

You are defining the cluster in the first step to have an max of 29. (Look at the RECSZ parameter in your define cluster statement) And you are trying to copy a variable vsam cluster which has a min record length of 924 bytes and max is 3924

Change your RECSZ parm to

[RonB]

Not to be too technical, but if the key length is 17, the the min recsz should be 18 - that is, if the original declaration is correct, and the key really does start in position 1 ( which is really the 2nd byte of the record, since key offsets are stated relative to 0 ). But I'll bet it really should start in position zero.
Better than all of the above, why not just allocate the cluster using a MODEL, then all you need to supply is the target name, space parameter, and model name:

[taltyman]

Why not use dssdump/dssrest and let it do all the heavy lifting?

[dragone_007]

Hello,

Thanks to everyone for their effort. I found the solution using SORT like this: