That is very neat! Thanks. I need to put that in my bag of tricks.
Actually, I need to really get into the DFSORT book to see all the new
nifties. I'd bet that we could use it to replace a lot of our
EasyTrievePlus processing.

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Sri h Kolusu <[email protected]> wrote:
> Charles,
>
> You can use RESIZE operator to break a large record into small records.  I
> assumed that each record starts with X'5B' ($) and each record has a max
> length of 200 bytes and you have a max of  10 records in a single large FB
> record.
>
> //STEP0100 EXEC PGM=ICETOOL
> //TOOLMSG  DD SYSOUT=*
> //DFSMSG   DD SYSOUT=*
> //IN       DD *
> $AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA$BBBBBBB$CCCCCC$DDD
> //OUT      DD SYSOUT=*
> //TOOLIN   DD *
>   RESIZE FROM(IN) TO(OUT) TOLEN(200) USING(CTL1)
> //*
> //CTL1CNTL DD *
>   OPTION COPY
>   INREC PARSE=(%01=(ABSPOS=2,ENDBEFR=C'$',FIXLEN=199),
>                %02=(ENDBEFR=X'5B',FIXLEN=199),
>                %03=(ENDBEFR=X'5B',FIXLEN=199),
>                %04=(ENDBEFR=X'5B',FIXLEN=199),
>                %05=(ENDBEFR=X'5B',FIXLEN=199),
>                %06=(ENDBEFR=X'5B',FIXLEN=199),
>                %07=(ENDBEFR=X'5B',FIXLEN=199),
>                %08=(ENDBEFR=X'5B',FIXLEN=199),
>                %09=(ENDBEFR=X'5B',FIXLEN=199),
>                %10=(ENDBEFR=X'5B',FIXLEN=199)),
>   BUILD=(X'5B',%01,X'5B',%02,X'5B',%03,X'5B',%04,X'5B',%05,
>          X'5B',%06,X'5B',%07,X'5B',%08,X'5B',%09,X'5B',%10)
>
>   OUTFIL FTOV,VLTRIM=C' ',OMIT=(2,199,CH,EQ,C' ')
> //*
>
> The output from this job is
>
> $AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
> $BBBBBBB
> $CCCCCC
> $DDD
>
>
> Check this link which explains in detail about RESIZE operator.
>
> http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/ICE1CA60/7.13
>
> If that is not what you want please show us a sample data and desired
> output along with DCB properties of both input and output..
>
> Thanks,
> Sri Hari Kolusu
> DFSORT Development
>

-- 
Maranatha! <><
John McKown

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