It depends. A Group level move will just move the data, ignoring the differences in field sizes. Move Corresponding, I believe will generate individual move instructions for each "pair" of fields. Move FIELDA to FIELDB with COMP-3 field descriptions will work just fine. Move FIELDA to FIELDB with X(nn) field descriptions *WILL NOT* provide the desired results.
HTH, <snip> We have a job in which the input file that is comming has one on the field (Location Number) is defined as X(4). This file is comming from a different system. Now here in our programs we are modifying the this field to 5 bytes from the orginal 4 bytes. We are putting transformation step previous to this step and expanding to 5 bytes . We will be removing this process once the other system sends the file with a 5 bye customer number. So now the issue is in some files the data is stored as s9(04) comp-3 here we are planning to make as s9(05) comp-3. Do we need to apply transformations here ? both the data defintions occupy 3 bytes Is there any chance of data getting corrupted ? if data transformations to be applied then how this can be done ? assume that the loaction number starts in the file from 10'th position . </snip> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
