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[tcurrier]

Is there a utility to compute the average length of all of the records in a variable length sequential mainframe file ? I thought I had seen one once, but can't seem to come up with one doing a search ...

Thanks...

[kolusu]

tucrrier,

Check this link

http://www.mvsforums.com/helpboards/viewtopic.php?p=41957#41957
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[Frank Yaeger]

tcurrier,

Here's a very simple DFSORT job to do that:

[advoss]

Frank, I like the simplicity of your solution, but, since it calculates an integer average, it truncates the answer. Is it possible to display the answer as a decimal answer, like 119.3?
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[kolusu]

advoss,

AVG only displays an integer value, not a decimal value. If you want to display the decimal part, you have to multiply by the appropriate value (e.g. +100 for two decimal places or +1000 for three decimal places).

Use the following control cards

[advoss]

Thank you.
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