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yadav2005 · Intermediate Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 348 Topics: 144

I have a File A with contents ABCD.I have one more step which executes SORT step and SORTOUT routes to File A with some output say PQRS.What happens is the contents of FILE A are overwritten if DISP=SHR is given and in the output i get PQRS.But i want in the output FILE A the original contents + blank (SPACE ) + new Sort step output .
For example i want the ouput as :

Mervyn · Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 6:02 am Post subject:

I think you need to post the code you are using. It obviously needs a small change, which would be fairly easy for a contributor to supply, but you can't expect to receive a complete solution starting from scratch.
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Frank Yaeger · Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 11:37 am Post subject:

yadav2005,

Sounds like you're trying to join fields from two records. The SPLICE technique discussed in the "Join fields from two files record-by-record" Smart DFSORT Trick at:

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

might be what you need.

If you need more specific help, show the records in each input file and the record or records you expect for output. Give the starting position, length and format of the relevant fields. Give the RECFM and LRECL of the input files.
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yadav2005 · Intermediate Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 348 Topics: 144

Thank You Frank for your response.

Initially File A is 160 bytes (LRECL and RECFM = FB) and it has data from position 1 - 4 value 'ABCD' and remaining blanks and has only 1 Record.Now the Sort Step produces new output 'PQRS' in position 1 - 4 and File A has now data as 'PQRS' and has only 1 record.But i want the output in File A as starting from Pos 1.

Frank Yaeger · Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 12:46 pm Post subject:

Hmmm ... that's not what I originally thought you were doing.

If you're saying that you have a 160-byte input record like this:

ABCD

and you want to produce a 160-byte output record like this:

ABCD PQRS

then you can use this DFSORT job:

yadav2005 · Intermediate Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 348 Topics: 144

Frank,

My requirement is like this:

In first step i am generating File A from another File say X which will always produce a single record say 'ABCD' in pos 1 - 4
In second step File A is again being used to generate a output from a File say Y and it will always produce a single record say 'PQRS' in pos 1 - 4.In either of the steps FILE A is the output.What i want in the output FILE A is

Frank Yaeger · Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 3:44 pm Post subject:

I don't know how you're "generating" these records. Are you using DFSORT or some other utility? What do the generating steps look like? If you want to use FileA as the only output file for both generating steps, then you need to change the generating steps to do what you want.

If you want to use DFSORT for this, then you can have your generating steps put the two generated records in a temp data set (use MOD for the temp data set) and then use the temp data set as input to the following DFSORT/ICETOOL job to get the output record you want in FileA: