>>He needs to split the lines at a word boundary at or before column 72.
DFSORT wouldn't be able to handle word boundary. I was addressing the case where OP had a string of text without a blank space in between and if he wants to split it at 72 bytes, then DFSORT can handle it. Thanks, Kolusu DFSORT Development IBM Corporation IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on 12/10/2018 02:41:24 PM: > From: Tom Marchant <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: 12/10/2018 02:42 PM > Subject: Re: Breaking text file at position 72? > Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> > > On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 14:32:11 -0700, Sri h Kolusu wrote: > > >The output from this job is 26 records with each record having 72 > >characters > > That's great, but unless I misunderstand what your job will do, it isn't what > Charles needs. He needs to split the lines at a word boundary at or before > column 72. > > -- > Tom Marchant > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
