Frank Swarbrick wrote: >I know we have some DFSORT experts here. I'm hoping we also have some File >Manager experts.
I know DFSORT and ICETOOL, but like you I also ask questions on IBM-MAIN too ;-), but I don't know File Manager... >I have a KSDS where I am adding a new field, and thus increasing the length of >each record. I want to do a compare but only show the field as being "not >equal" if the newly added characters are not spaces. But I do want to show >them as being not equal if the newly added characters are other than spaces. Ok, lets see - you added some characters (not spaces) to new column x-y using some utility. Do you want to search all 'short' and 'long' records? Or do you copy only 'long' records and then search them only? Something like this INCLUDE=(<first column>,<how many characters>,CH,NE,C' ') ? Or something like this - one possible way to split up your records in two separate outputs? (for this example, your new field is starting at column 100 and is 10 chars long, no variations in position and length) OUTFILE FNAMES=SPACES,INCLUDE=(100,10,CH,EQ,C' ') OUTFILE FNAMES=NOSPACE,INCLUDE=(100,10,1,CH,NE,C' ') Or do you want to show if a space is appearing at all? In other words, do you want to pick up a record with at least one space character in your new field? If so, the SS statement is a great help for that. Or am I missing something? Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
