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krk123 · Beginner Joined: 03 Jun 2003 Posts: 58 Topics: 19

HI,
I just saw some code and I am trying to figure out the use of II and III. I checked the manual, but didnt find anything.

EDIT=(II,IIT).

what is the use of this in OUTREC? I mean II and III? Will they format the data? I have seen IIII-II-II for Date.

Thanks,
KRK123.

kolusu · Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2004 11:00 am Post subject:

KRK123,

Edit verb is used to specify the number in a readable format. There are probably around 26 defined edit masks. I is used to supress the leading zeroes. This is similar to specifing Z in cobol

Check this link (do a find search for m5 ) on this page and you will find all the availbale edit masks.

http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/ICECA109/3.13?DT=20020722140254

Hope this helps...

Cheers

Kolusu
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krk123 · Beginner Joined: 03 Jun 2003 Posts: 58 Topics: 19

Hi Kolusu,
Thanks a lot for the info.
Regards,
KRK123

Frank Yaeger · Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2004 11:54 am Post subject:

krk123,

The link to "DFSORT Application Programming Guide" that Kolusu listed has complete information on DFSORT's OUTFIL statement. Also, for some more information on DFSORT's numeric editing features, see "Reformatting Features" - "Reformatting: Numeric Editing" in "Beyond Sorting" at:

http://www.ibm.com/servers/storage/support/software/sort/mvs/beyond_sorting/
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