>>If the data that Charles is processing contains paragraphs without
intervening blank lines, all the paragraphs will be flowed together, not
likely what he wants. Also, he mentioned that some of the lines
are several thousand bytes long.
Tom,
DFSORT has resize operator which can split long records into short records
and merge the short records into long records. So as you mentioned Text
flow needs a blank to work with, but DFSORT doesn't need one. Here is a
sample. The only requirement is that the input dataset need to have
RECFM=FB
//STEP0100 EXEC PGM=ICETOOL
//TOOLMSG DD SYSOUT=*
//DFSMSG DD SYSOUT=*
//IN DD DISP=SHR,DSN=Your Long FB Lrecl file
//OUT DD DSN=Your FB 72 byte file,
// DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE),
// SPACE=(CYL,(X,Y),RLSE)
//TOOLIN DD *
RESIZE FROM(IN) TO(OUT) TOLEN(72)
/*
For those who want to test it out here is a sample job which will create 1
long record of 1872 bytes and then will use resize to split the 1 record
into multiple records of 72 bytes each.
//****************************************************************
//* CREATE 1 RECORD WITH ALL THE ALPHABETS EACH REPEATED 72 TIMES*
//* 26 X 72 = 1872 LRECL *
//****************************************************************
//STEP0100 EXEC PGM=SORT
//SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=*
//SORTIN DD *
ABC
//SORTOUT DD DSN=&&LONGREC,DISP=(,PASS),SPACE=(CYL,(1,1),RLSE)
//SYSIN DD *
OPTION COPY
INREC BUILD=(72C'A',
72C'B',
72C'C',
72C'D',
72C'E',
72C'F',
72C'G',
72C'H',
72C'I',
72C'J',
72C'K',
72C'L',
72C'M',
72C'N',
72C'O',
72C'P',
72C'Q',
72C'R',
72C'S',
72C'T',
72C'U',
72C'V',
72C'W',
72C'X',
72C'Y',
72C'Z')
//*
//****************************************************************
//* SPLIT THE 1872 LRECL FILE INTO 72 BYTE LRECL USING RESIZE *
//****************************************************************
//STEP0200 EXEC PGM=ICETOOL
//TOOLMSG DD SYSOUT=*
//DFSMSG DD SYSOUT=*
//IN DD DISP=SHR,DSN=&&LONGREC
//OUT DD SYSOUT=*
//TOOLIN DD *
RESIZE FROM(IN) TO(OUT) TOLEN(72)
/*
The output from this job is 26 records with each record having 72
characters
Further if you have any questions please let me know
Thanks,
Kolusu
DFSORT Development
IBM Corporation
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