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[bullfighter]

Hi,
I need to merge 2 or more members of different datasets into one member. can someone help me in this.

Input : sat DATASET1, DATASET2, DATASET3 are datasets, and MEMBER1, MEMBER2, MEMBER3 be the members in the corresponding datasets.

I need to merge these members into DATASET4(MEMBER4)

Thanks in advance,

[kolusu]

bullfighter,

You can simply concatenate the members as shown below and create a new member in a existing pds

[bullfighter]

Yes it worked, thanks for ur help

[vkphani]

Kolusu,

I have used the same JCL for concatenating two sequential files with LRECL as 1156 and 603.RECFM for both the files is FB.
I am getting this error: OPEN ERROR SORTIN.

[Ram]

Paneendra,

You cannot concatenate FB datasets with different record lengths. I suggest that you pad spaces to the smaller file and then try concatenating both the files.

Thanks,
Ram

[vkphani]

Hi,

Instead of copying, is there any utility using which we can pad the smallest lrecl dataset with either spaces or low-values.

[Ram]

Paneendra,

Use sort to pad spaces to the smaller lrecl file. I am including the sample sort control statements below. Your sortin should be the small lrecl file. The sortout dataset will be created with lrecl equal to 1156.

SORT FIELDS=COPY
OUTREC FIELDS=(1,603,553X)

Thanks,
Ram

[vkphani]

Hi All,

Thanks a lot for your help.

[vkphani]

Hi,

I am merging 25 input files into an output file.
All the input files and output file is of format VB.
But the record length of the input files are not same.
But if I look at the output file, sorting is not happening.

Here is the JCL.

[kolusu]

[vkphani]

Hi Kolusu,

Thanks for the help.
It worked fine.