thanks all, but how many xxxxCNTL that can be concated to each sort statement... If I want to conact 200 xxxCNTL..is that OK?
best regards tommy On 12/13/06, Frank Yaeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Barry A. Schwarz wrote on 12/12/2006 11:34:02 AM: > Four characters. ICETOOL will automatically append CNTL to these > characters to form the DD name. Since the DD name is limited to eight > and CNTL takes four, USING is limited to a maximum of four. Four characters is not the "maximum" - it is the only number of characters allowed. USING(xxxx) requires that xxxx be exactly four characters and match up to a ddname of exactly xxxxCNTL. USING(x), USING(xx), USING(xxx), USING(xxxxx), etc are NOT allowed. Only USING(xxxx) is allowed. But I'm still not sure that's what the original poster was asking. Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Team (IBM) - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Specialties: PARSE, JFY, SQZ, ICETOOL, IFTHEN, OVERLAY, 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
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