Frank, Thank you very much for the quick reply and I saw your post regarding the new functionalities with the latest PTF almost immediately after I posted my message. Funny how timing works out like that sometimes. I checked out the PDF doc after your initial post and FINDREP will handle exactly what I want to do. Thank you for your continued remarkable support and enhancements to DFSORT functionality.
Thanks, Hank On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:17:13 -0700, Frank Yaeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on 07/28/2008 >11:30:56 AM: >> ... >> The problem I am having is attempting to perform an OVERLAY in varying >> positions of the record for static and varying lengths. For >> instance, multiple >> long records within a fixed dataset may have a sequence of consecutive >> 1's, '11111111', but they may appear anywhere from position 1 until >> the end of >> the record. So I would like to perform an overlay of the 1's with spaces >> whenever there are 8 consecutive 1's, but not perform it if there are >only 6 >> consecutive 1's. >> >> I have investigated using ALTSEQ with TRAN and it doesn't appear to allow >for >> multiple consecutive characters for the translation. Basically, I >> could change >> all 1's to spaces, but that isn't what I want. I also tried using the >PARSE >> function with STARTAT to position me at the beginning of C'11111111' in >> conjunction with an OVERLAY in hopes that it would overlay at that >> position in >> the record. I know, wishful thinking because SORT normally doesn't >function >> like that. > >I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to do. An example of your >input >records and what you expect for output for various cases would help. > >However, if you're looking for something that will find and replace >multiple >consecutive characters like TRAN=ALTSEQ does for one character, DFSORT now >has that capability. Find and replace is one of the new features in >z/OS DFSORT V1R5 PTF UK90013 (July, 2008) which is described in detail at: > >www.ibm.com/systems/support/storage/software/sort/mvs/ugpf/ > >If you install that PTF, you'll be able to use FINDREP to do various types >of find and replace operations. > >Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Development Team (IBM) - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Specialties: FINDREP, WHEN=GROUP, DATASORT, ICETOOL, 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
