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Create SYMNAMES more than 72 bytes.

 
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Magesh_J
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:49 pm    Post subject: Create SYMNAMES more than 72 bytes. Reply with quote
Hi,

Is it possible to create a SYMNAMES as follows ?

Code:

VALID,C'0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O,P,Q,R,S,U,V,W,X,Y,Z,&,-, '


The problem we have is it crosses 72 bytes of record length.

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Magesh
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William Collins
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 3:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
No, you can't extend a symbol. Can you show the code you're trying to use it it, and describe what you are attempting?
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 10:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Magesh_J,

As William pointed out, you cannot have more than 64 characters for a symbol. I am guessing that you want to have a symbol to identify the valid alphanumeric and some special characters.

Just so you are aware with DFSORT V2R1 you can use the new UC, LC, MC, UN, LN and MN keywords (similar to the previously available NUM keyword) which now allow you to test a field for various combinations of alphanumeric characters or non-alphanumeric characters using binary (BI) format. The new keywords allow you to select any of the following alphanumeric character sets:
Code:

 UC: Uppercase characters (A-Z)
 LC: Lowercase characters (a-z)
 MC: Mixed case characters (A-Z, a-z)
 UN: Uppercase and numeric characters (A-Z, 0-9)
 LN: Lowercase and numeric characters (a-z, 0-9)
 MN: Mixed case and numeric characters (A-Z, a-z, 0-9)


Alternatively you can split the symbol values into multiple symbols and then validate them

Code:

//SYMNAMES DD *                                                 
VALID_ALPHA,C'A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O,P,Q,R,S,U,V,W,X,Y,Z'
VALID_NUM,C'0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9'                                 
VALID_SPCL,C'&,-, '                                               


and you can use them as follows

Code:

  INCLUDE COND=(1,1,SS,EQ,VALID_ALPHA,OR,
                1,1,SS,EQ,VALID_NUM,OR,   
                1,1,SS,EQ,VALID_SPCL)     

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Magesh_J
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 10:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thank you very much Kolusu.

This is what I am looking at.

Yes, I am just validating each character of a particular field.

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Magesh J
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