On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 09:24 -0700, Frank Yaeger wrote: > Well, that would be: > > INCLUDE COND=(3,1,BI,NE,X'00') > > but it actually won't work because DFSORT "assembles" the spanned > record into an unspanned record before it processes the INCLUDE > statement. So the INCLUDE statement will see an RDW with the total > length in the first and second bytes and X'00' in the third byte, > rather than an SDW with the partial length in the first and > second bytes and the segment descriptor in the third byte.
I reckon I needed to get at this data once before - I think a quick E15 solved it for me. I may have even had an "off-list" with Frank about this deficiency (my perception) in DF/SORT wrt handling (real long) spanned records. Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
