Gil,
I see in the very next section of this manual is something called "Coding
restrictions". Apparently you don't even need a special character to delimit a
comment, errr, remark... I tagged "#" the relevant restrictions. To
summarize, asterisk in column 1 is a comment, anything after a blank on any
other line is a remark.
<quote>
The following rules apply to control statement preparation:
Operation definers and operands must be in uppercase EBCDIC.
# Column 1 of each control statement can be used only for a label or for a
comment statement that begins with an asterisk in column 1.
If present, a label must begin in column 1. Labels are allowed only in the
SYSIN and SORTCNTL data sets.
The entire operation definer must be contained on the first line of a
control statement.
# The first operand must begin on the first line of a control statement. The
last operand in a statement must be followed by at least one blank.
# Blanks are not allowed in operands. Anything following a blank is
considered part of the remark field.
Remarks are allowed only in the DFSPARM, SYSIN, and SORTCNTL data sets.
Commas, semicolons, and blanks can be used only as delimiters. They can be
used in values only if the values are constants.
Each type of program control statement can appear only once within a single
source (for example, the SYSIN data set).
</quote>
Rex
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Sri
h Kolusu
Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2022 11:20 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: dfsort - Reformat file
>> BTW, what's the syntax for comments in DFSORT command files?
Gil,
It is documented here
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=rules-inserting-comment-statements__;!!KjMRP1Ixj6eLE0Fj!tWOdD72_vf-mSDlcMyy6-nZqOfhAo-JfpwI7KBTfkM_IvYfCRMOwpCPxwxfhhC0MaK2yKwbTBOmAucYFHvM$
>> The solution above, lacking comments and with 8 numeric positional
>> parameters is horribly opaque to the novice.
If there is NO reformatting(Binary/packed fields to Display fields, printing
Hex numbers.... ), You just need POSITION of the data and LENGTH of the data to
be written out.
//SYSIN DD *
OPTION COPY
* This is a sample comment with asterisks in position 1
INREC BUILD=(05,08, # copy from pos 05 for a length of 08
15,05, # copy from pos 15 for a length of 05
22,21, # copy from pos 22 for a length of 21
45,05) # copy from pos 45 for a length of 05
/*
Thanks,
Kolusu
DFSORT Development
IBM Corporation
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