Sorry, I misunderstood what you wanted. Try adding the NULLOUT=RC4 parameter to your MERGE step and then add another step immediately after that will execute conditionally, only if the output from the previous step is RC=4. For example:
//MERGE EXEC PGM=SORT,PARM'NULLOUT=RC4' //....... existing JCL //STEP2 EXEC PGM=SORT,COND=(4,NE,MERGE) //SYSIN DD * SORT FIELDS=COPY //SORTIN DD * //SORTOUT DD DSN=same.output.from.merge.step,DISP=SHR //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=* John Reda Syncsort, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Brazee Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 10:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Merge - exclude blank lines Actually, what I want is a single blank line - only if the merged file is empty, but no blank line if there are data in the merged file. ________________________________ From: Howard Brazee Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 7:52 AM To: [email protected]; 'Frank Yaeger' Subject: Merge - exclude blank lines I have a job that merges two files. One of those files was empty in a run (or produced a blank line), and the merged file started off with a blank line. That blank line made the subsequent job abort (thinking the file was empty). I could change that program or maybe change the sort to eliminate that blank line. How would I change this sort? MERGE FIELDS=(3,49,A, 1,2,A, 52,15,A), FORMAT=CH,SIZE=E100000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
