Peter Farley wrote on 03/02/2010 02:30:27 PM: > SORT question: How to store record count in existing trailer? > > I suspect this is a question for Frank Yaeger, but if anyone else has > done this I'd appreciate the help. > > Looking at the "Smart DFSORT Tricks" PDF I see how to sort detail > records between a header and a trailer. So far, so good. > > Now, though, I need to reset the record count in the existing trailer > without changing any of the other values in the trailer. The count > should be the count of sorted records NOT including the header and > trailer records. The count field is 11 bytes unsigned zoned decimal.
Peter, I'd be glad to help you with this, but I need a bit more information. Please show me an example of the records in your input file and what you> expect for output. Is there anything that identifies the header and trailer record, or do we just know that the header record is the first record and the trailer record is the last record? What is the RECFM and LRECL of the input file? What is the starting position of the count field in the trailer record? You can e-mail me the answers offline ([email protected]) if you like.? Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Development Team (IBM) - [email protected] Specialties: JOINKEYS, FINDREP, WHEN=GROUP, ICETOOL, Symbols, Migration => DFSORT/MVS is on the Web at http://www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
