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psmadhusudhan · Beginner Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 143 Topics: 48

Thanks Anuj for your replies. I tried ICEMAN it is throwing following error:

psmadhusudhan · Beginner Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 143 Topics: 48

Thanks Anuj your code worked. Thank you very much. Is there anything to do in one step rather than two steps.
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Madhu Sudhan

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 4:46 am Post subject:

I feel helpless with what you've posted. If you check the the definition of DSS10065E, it says:

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 4:58 am Post subject:

Madhu -- you beat me by one minute. Glad to hear, you finally got it working.

If you want to achieve the result in one step you can use ICETOOL job posted earlier. But if you need solution by ICEMAN/SORT... I need to look again and I need some time.
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Anuj

Frank Yaeger · Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 10:19 am Post subject:

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 8:55 am Post subject:

Hi Frank,

As s_shivaraj said this earlier in this thread,

Terry_Heinze · Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 12:38 pm Post subject:

255 is the maximum number allowed in many other circumstances because it's the largest number than can be stored in the low order byte of a 2-byte binary number. Maybe that's the reason?
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Frank Yaeger · Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 10:34 am Post subject:

Terry_Heinze · Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 11:33 am Post subject:

Frank Yaeger · Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 11:50 am Post subject:

Oh, I missed that. I think of that as a 1-byte binary number rather than the low order byte of a 2-byte binary number. Not sure why you would describe it that way since you only need one byte to store a value of 0-255. Why use 2 bytes when 1 byte will do. If you're going to use 2 bytes, you can make the limit 65535 instead of 255.
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Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Development Team (IBM)
Specialties: JOINKEYS, FINDREP, WHEN=GROUP, ICETOOL, Symbols, Migration
DFSORT is on the Web at:
www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort

Terry_Heinze · Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 12:15 pm Post subject:

I described it that way since it can be a bit tricky for a novice to access just 1 byte of a field defined as binary. COBOL likes to see COMP fields as 2-bytes, 4-bytes, or 8-bytes in length. Just being nit-picky, Frank. Smile

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Frank Yaeger · Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 1:08 pm Post subject:

Ok. DFSORT is written in Assembler, so those are the terms I think in when developing it. I only think in terms of COBOL externally as it relates to DFSORT formats vs COBOL formats. Smile

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Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Development Team (IBM)
Specialties: JOINKEYS, FINDREP, WHEN=GROUP, ICETOOL, Symbols, Migration
DFSORT is on the Web at:
www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 2:37 am Post subject:

I'm a COBOL guy and I must have picked what Terry has said. But, keeping in mind that DFSORT kernel is based upon assembler - I was just not sure how to interpret that.

My lil curiosity paid me a lot, that was a nice information for me -- Thank you both... Smile

Have a good one,

Regards,