Hi Alfred, You can look at the answers I gave Elardus and Kolusu for the example data. 1. I'm not sure if I understand your question exactly, this (primary) problem case is for a "straight" inrecord--->outrecord transition 2. Not necessarily. I'm out for a general solution.
Best Regards, Thomas Berg ___________________________________________________________________ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT Delivery Swedbank AB (Publ) > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Alfred Cole > Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 8:45 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: DFSORT/ICETOOL pondering > > Thomas, > > In the example that you stated, > 1. are the records apart of a set of records > 2. does each record have a unique identifier and sequence key. > > If so, the you could extract records 8 and perform a specific operations and > then resort the records back into the record set. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On > Behalf Of Sri h Kolusu > Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 11:12 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: DFSORT/ICETOOL pondering > > Thomas, > > I do think it is possible to reformat the selective data using symbols from > various positions of the record. Are we dealing with FB file or VB files ? > Regarding the concatenation of data, do you always want to combine 2 records > data into a single record? It would be great if you can show us a sample > data and desired output with the DCB properties of the input and output > files. > > Thanks, > Kolusu > DFSORT Development > > IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> wrote on > 10/21/2014 10:54:39 PM: > > > From: Thomas Berg <thomas.b...@swedbank.se> > > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > > Date: 10/21/2014 10:56 PM > > Subject: DFSORT/ICETOOL pondering > > Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> > > > > Sometimes I have a need to do a selective copy of a dataset where the > > selection is both record sequence and record position/part > dependent. > > And by that I mean the record part/position is varying depending on > > which record it's about. > > An example (yes, it looks silly): > > > > I want to copy position 31 to 40 of all records but from record 8 and > > 9 I want to copy also (concatenate) position 71 to 80 and from record > > 6 to 8 I also (concatenate in "front") want to copy position 1 to > 3. > > The point of this example is to illustrate the needs of a more general > > solution. > > > > I can see the use of the SUBSET (ICETOOL) for record selection but how > > do you user DFSORT/ICETOOL to solve the combining record and varying > > position needs ? > > I now use a homegrown program for this but it's lacking efficiency to > > say the least and I'm looking at DFSORTs efficiency and speed. > > > > I have been looking at OUTFIL/OUTREC etc. but I can't see a straight > > forward and general solution/"template". > > I'm hoping for someone who have done this before to supply an example. > > > > > > > > Best Regards, > > Thomas Berg > > > _________________________________________________________________ > __ > > Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT Delivery Swedbank AB (Publ) > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email > to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
