Peter Hunkeler wrote on 09/21/2007 02:34:08 AM: > I've been trying to extract and sort some records where > a character form date field (Dyyyyddd) is found at two > different positions in the input record, depending on some > indicator in a fix position elsewhere. > > I thought I could > 1.) copy the date field to the beginning of each record > using INREC IFTHEN OVERLAY and then > 2.) INCLUDE only records within a specific date range by > referring to the field overlaid by 1.) > > I do need the date field at the beginning later on, so I > need to do the INREC processing anyway. > > It seems that INCLUDE is processing the records before INREC > is modifying them. (My INCLUDE just did not seem to select > what I wanted it to). > > Does anyone know for sure the order of INCLUDE vs. INREC? > The manual only says that INREC can modify records before they > are sorted, merged or copied.
The order of processing for DFSORT functions is indicated in this Figure in "z/OS DFSORT Application Programming Guide": http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/ICE1CA20/1.5.4?DT=20060615185603#FIGSTMTSEQ As you can see, it shows that INCLUDE is processed before INREC. However, you can use OUTFIL INCLUDE=(...) to do what you want since OUTFIL is processed after INREC. 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
