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Yes, that does exactly what I need. Thank you. I guess I was trying to make it too complicated.

I'm having a splice problem involving duplicates. I have inserted "protection" records per previous posts I've read to preserve the duplicates, but can't seem to get what I need.

Here is the JCL (p ...

It works...thank you kolusu.

Greetings,

I hope this question hasn't already been answered elsewhere. I did the searches I could think of and didn't find anything.

I have an LRECRL=80 file in which I need to convert columns ...

Now I see...thank you Kolusu, it helped indeed.

I'm attempting to splice two datasets (both LRECL=110, RECFM=FB) on a common key and the results I'm getting seem to contradict what I thought I knew about how splice works.

My goal is to keep only ...

Thanks Frank and Kolusu. I will pass these suggestions on to my colleague and report back with the results after she tries them.

I'm posting this on behalf of a colleague who is having problems with a splice using an extremely large dataset. She has already tried adding more sortwork files. What else might she try to overcome t ...

Ah, now I see. Thanks.

(There is a report ID that must be in a certain position on the report on every page, or that page won't get defined correctly in our report archival software).

Thanks a ...

Thank you! Do you happen to know if I need to move the grand total inside the "sections" brackets to do that? For some reason I have it in my head that trailer2 can only exist inside the sections. ...

Sorry for the urgency. This is going in production today, and I was just informed it can't be processed by our report archival software because the grand total line produces a page feed but no new pag ...

Thank you both very much. I am reviewing your code to make sure I understand before I integrate it into my job. As a side note, these dates are all for the month previous to the current month, so they ...

I have an 80-byte RECFM=FB file that contains, among other values, 3 dates

In columns 26-29, there is a packed date in the form:

0MYD
MYDC

for example,

0842
000C is 080402 or August 2, ...

It worked perfectly. Thank you very much.

My end goal is to produce a report with a title containing the previous month and the year, in the form:

August , 2004 (if the job ran in September 2004)

or

December, 2004 (if the job ran in ...