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Add string at end records of VB File

 
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Rohit Sharma
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 4:34 am    Post subject: Add string at end records of VB File Reply with quote
Hi,

I need to add four character bytes ( C'1111') at end of each record of a variable block file. How can I achieve this using Syncsort.

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Rohit.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 6:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Rohit sharma,

Adding a constant value of '1111' at the end of each record for each variable is not possible. VB records have a fixed part and a variable part.

ex:
Code:

RDW|aaaaaaaaaaa|bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
RDW|ccccccccccc|
RDW|fffffffffff|vvvvvvv


In this scenario you wanted to pad '1111' at the end of each record.

Code:

RDW|aaaaaaaaaaa|bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb|1111
RDW|ccccccccccc|1111
RDW|fffffffffff|vvvvvvv1111


Syncsort does not have any provision for creating records as show above. There is a feature VLFILL which can be used to fil records with a value. VLFILL= f where f can be any single byte C'c' (character) or X'hh' (hex) byte you like such as C'1' or X'40' (blank).

By using that feature the output will be as follows

Code:

RDW|aaaaaaaaaaa|bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb|1111
RDW|ccccccccccc|111111111111111111111111111
RDW|fffffffffff|vvvvvvv11111111111111111111


Since you have not provided the lrecl , here is a sample JCl which you can try for 80 byte LRECL.
Code:

//STEP0100 EXEC PGM=SORT                                   
//SYSOUT   DD  SYSOUT=*                                   
//SORTIN   DD  DSN=YOUR VB INPUT,                         
//             DISP=SHR                                   
//SORTOUT  DD  DSN=YOUR VB OUTPUT,                       
//             DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE),                   
//             UNIT=SYSDA,                                 
//             SPACE=(CYL,(X,Y),RLSE)                   
//SYSIN    DD  *                                           
 SORT FIELDS=COPY                                         
 OUTFIL VLFILL=C'1',OUTREC=(1,4,5,76)                     
/*                                                         



Hope this helps...

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 11:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thanks for the reply.

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