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coboladdict · Beginner Joined: 02 Mar 2010 Posts: 15 Topics: 5

How can I write, with dfsort/syncsort, an additional record in the output file at the end of the processing?

I tried the "trailer1" option but it requires an specif recfm (it's meant to used in reports, I guess).

I'd like to determine the recfm and lrecl of this additional record, if possible.

Thanks.

Frank Yaeger · Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 12:13 pm Post subject:

It's not clear what you want to do. Please be more specific. Show an example of your input records and what you expect for output. Give the RECFM and LRECL of the input and output files. Give the starting position, length and format of all relevant fields. Explain clearly what it is you want to do.
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coboladdict · Beginner Joined: 02 Mar 2010 Posts: 15 Topics: 5

I can't post from my work place so I'm gonna do my best.
I want to read an idcams listcat sysout with dfsort, identify the dsn next to the string "nonvsam" and write a file "x" that will be used as the sysin in another idcams.
the text in the file "x" record can't be longer than 72 characters and so I need to have 2 lines (records) in this file.

Frank Yaeger · Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 1:33 pm Post subject:

The LISTCAT output has RECFM=VB, so assuming you want &&filex to have RECFM=FB and LRECL=80, with the REPRO statement split across two lines, you can use these DFSORT statements:

mickeygoo · Beginner Joined: 15 Nov 2007 Posts: 26 Topics: 7

FWIW, HEADERn/TRAILERn were designed for reports, and will involve carriage control characters for them to work the way they were designed to work. I think this is what you were referring to when you said "TRAILER1 requires a specif recfm" - the carriage control characters require RECFM=FBA.

Having said that, you can suppress the carriage control by using the OUTFIL REMOVECC (REMOVE Carriage Control) operand.

Hope that helps...
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Frank Yaeger · Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 11:27 am Post subject:

And REMOVECC will also remove the need for the 'A' in the RECFM (e.g. it will use RECFM=FB instead of RECFM=FBA).
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Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Development Team (IBM)
Specialties: JOINKEYS, FINDREP, WHEN=GROUP, ICETOOL, Symbols, Migration
DFSORT is on the Web at:
www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort