I use a format item of E'9999.999' on the field specified as length 4, type PD... I'm not sure of the syntax on a typical SORT, as I always use symbol files, and ICETOOL DISPLAY for this sort of thing.
sas On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 8:27 AM Jack Zukt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello All, > I am trying to build a report of inactive datasets using DCOLLECT for input > and DFSORT to create the files for each last year referenced. > For the output files I only want the dataset name; last used date; > allocated space; used space; storage group name. Now for the tricky part: I > want the date and space fields translated to characters. On the DCOLLECT > input records the date is in the 'yyyydddF' format and the space fields are > 4 byte long signed. I am pretty sure that there is a way to tell DFSORT to > make that translation but I am having no luck with the manual. > Any suggestions? > Thank you for any help that you may give me. > Regards > Jack > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
