Peter Farley wrote on 05/16/2007 09:32:35 AM: > Frank, won't the RDW's be processed for each segment independently if the > SORTIN DD has an override for RECFM=V or VB, bypassing the Spanned > processing?
Well, I couldn't make it do that. I set up an input data set with RECFM=VBS,LRECL=60,BLKSIZE=40 and gave it 60 byte records so they would be spanned. I used that data set as SORTIN for a step with: INCLUDE COND=(3,1,BI,NE,X'00') None of the records were included which is what I would expect given that DFSORT assembles the spanned records to unspanned records before the INCLUDE is processed. Then I tried specifying RECFM=V on the SORTIN DD as you suggested. DFSORT treated the input data set as RECFM=VS. With RECFM=VB, I got RECFM=VBS. So trying to "fool" DFSORT that way doesn't work. I really don't think there's any way to get DFSORT's INCLUDE to look at the SDW directly - it sets up an RDW internally. Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Development 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
