On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:07:16 -0500, Bass, Walter W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a file of variable length records >DCB=(DSORG=PS,RECFM=VB,LRECL=1504,BLKSIZE=27998) >The records are already a variety of different lengths. >Many, but not all of these records have trailing blanks (x'40') on the >end. >I would like to remove those trailing blanks. > >I suspect that ICETOOL can kindly remove them for me and shorten the >record >length accordingly, but I have not yet been able to figure out how. > >Has anyone else already invented this wheel or have some idea how to go >about it? >If not ICETOOL, is there another common IBM utility that I am >overlooking that >can do this without having to resort to writing a program? > >Thanks, >Bill Bass >Senior Applications Developer >United Health Care >Greenville, SC > > Have a look at using the VLTRIM=' ' with DFSORT, either SORT/COPY or with ICETOOL, such as: OPTION COPY OUTFIL VLTRIM=C' ' Scott Barry SBBWorks, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
