Re: SORT question: How to store record count in existing trailer?

2010-03-08 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
the trailer count unsigned ZD? Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Frank Yaeger Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 12:45 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: SORT question: How to store record count in existing trailer

Re: SORT question: How to store record count in existing trailer?

2010-03-08 Thread Frank Yaeger
Peter Farley wrote on 03/08/2010 10:53:05 AM: I just got around to trying your solution, and it works well EXCEPT... I need the output trailer count to be UNsigned zoned decimal. Is there any way I can make the trailer count unsigned ZD? I tried specifying TO=UFF, but it did not like that:

Re: SORT question: How to store record count in existing trailer?

2010-03-08 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
M11 is exactly what I needed, thank you very much! Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Frank Yaeger Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 2:05 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: SORT question: How to store record

Re: SORT question: How to store record count in existing trailer?

2010-03-03 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Hi Frank, Thanks for the suggested solutions. In my case, the header and trailer are identifiable (HDR=X'00', TRLR=X'FF', pos 1 for let's say at least 10 bytes). The file is VB, LRECL=8004, and the data records vary widely in length. Header and trailer are length 700 always, but both header and

Re: SORT question: How to store record count in existing trailer?

2010-03-03 Thread Frank Yaeger
Peter Farley wrote on 03/03/2010 07:16:55 AM: Thanks for the suggested solutions. In my case, the header and trailer are identifiable (HDR=X'00', TRLR=X'FF', pos 1 for let's say at least 10 bytes). The file is VB, LRECL=8004, and the data records vary widely in length. Header and trailer

Re: SORT question: How to store record count in existing trailer?

2010-03-03 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
[mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Frank Yaeger Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 12:45 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: SORT question: How to store record count in existing trailer? Snipped Peter, That's no problem. Here's a DFSORT job that will do what you asked for: //S1

SORT question: How to store record count in existing trailer?

2010-03-02 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
I suspect this is a question for Frank Yeager, but if anyone else has done this I'd appreciate the help. Looking at the Smart DFSORT Tricks PDF I see how to sort detail records between a header and a trailer. So far, so good. Now, though, I need to reset the record count in the existing trailer

Re: SORT question: How to store record count in existing trailer?

2010-03-02 Thread Frank Yaeger
Peter Farley wrote on 03/02/2010 02:30:27 PM: SORT question: How to store record count in existing trailer? I suspect this is a question for Frank Yaeger, but if anyone else has done this I'd appreciate the help. Looking at the Smart DFSORT Tricks PDF I see how to sort detail records

Re: SORT question: How to store record count in existing trailer?

2010-03-02 Thread Frank Yaeger
Peter, I suspect you've gone home for the day and I'll be in a few hours after you in the morning (I'm on the West Coast). So I'll show you some examples of how to do what you want to do with DFSORT/ICETOOL. I'm assuming that your input file has RECFM=FB and LRECL=80. If it has RECFM=VB and/or