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[marcovan]

Hello,

I am new to syncsort and trying to learn from the various examples on this excellent site.

We have a requirement to perform the following data manipulation.

If in position 1 we find 'ABC' then we want to chance the values in position 35 to 'XYZ'

My code is as follows:
SORT FIELDS=COPY
INREC IFTHEN=(WHEN=(1,3,CH,EQ,C'ABC'),
OVERLAY=(35:C'XYZ'))

When I run my job it comes back and it says:

SORT FIELDS=COPY
INREC IFTHEN=(WHEN=(1,3,CH,EQ,C'101'),
*
OVERLAY=(35:C'20X'))
WER268A INREC STATEMENT : SYNTAX ERROR

I've tried OUTREC as well. Any help would be appreciated.

[kolusu]

marcovan,

You have a version of syncsort which does not support IFTHEN syntax. try this

[marcovan]

Thanks Kolusu!

That worked like a charm.