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I dont know if anyone is aware of the APS Programs. APS programs are some tool generated programs, they are very difficult one's to get analysed and fixed.
I'm not sure if there is any tool that exis ...

semigeezer, not all of us are supposed to program in REXX, thank you !

Kolusu, currently this is the way i'm following, but included almost 170 hex val's to be converted to spaces.
since, in this case, the data is retrieved from a other than mainframe platform, so good ...

.<(+|&!$*);

Kolusu,

I meant a little different., "I'll be replacing only if not in set of pre-defined chars (like !"%$''" etc..,), if its in there, write the original character.." more or l ...

hi,

I have a file of length 200 bytes; we have packed data at 90-100 cols.

Is there anyway to space-out the characters (from 1-89, 101-200, leave the packed data which is at 90-100 bytes) which ...

Thanks for all the replies/ suggestions...decided to hard code the first proc in my job and do the rest..

thank you...!!

thanks expat.. yes, i know that expat.. but dont know is there any other way to go about it ??

I have a step which executes a proc, proc has got seven steps, i need to check the condition of the seventh step, which executes a proc again.

I tried checking the condition, its abending with the ...

Yes Kolusu....It has definitely helped me....thanks....

Kolusu, If both of my files (file-1 and file-2) have unique keys...then will it work fine ?? or while executing the select will it shuffle the records and get me some of the file-2 records also ??

Please read this SELECT FROM(CONCAT) TO(OUTPUT) ON(1,7,CH) FIRSTDUP USING(CTL3) as SELECT FROM(CT) TO(OUT) ON(1,7,CH) FIRSTDUP USING(CTL3)

Yes Phantom..SPLICE is working for me...till now I thought this will be working only for IBM tools....Thanks for the Info.

I worked out this problem as follows :
//SYNCSTP EXEC PGM=SYNCTOOL
//TO ...

Ooops...!!! forgot to answer your question Phantom, sorry for that...
File - 2 may contain up 50K of records....in production.....

Hi Phantom,

Yes, I'm trying to extract a subset of records from first file. Key for both of the files is starting at pos - 1 and ending at position - 3. So, whenever a key from the first file is ha ...