Is there any reason not to use IEBDG for this? Mark Jacobs
Sent from ProtonMail mobile -------- Original Message -------- On Mar 27, 2019, 4:44 PM, Bill Ashton wrote: > Hi everyone! I am trying to generate a large test file for an internal > project, and I wanted to know if anyone has done this with SORT. > > I need to have the first 9 bytes be incremental from 100000001 by 8 > (...001, ...009, ...017, etc.), followed by a 12byte current timestamp > (hhmmss,millll without the dot) and then I need a couple random 7-byte > packed fields and a static text field with every record having the same > value. > > Is this possible with SORT? If so, is it good to use this to generate about > 1Mill records? I will run this multiple times during testing (hence the 1 > in the first byte, which will be 2 next time). > > Thanks for your suggestions and recommendations! > Billy > > -- > Thank you and best regards, > *Billy Ashton* > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
