Thanks a lot, I'll give it a try. -Victor- ----------------------- On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:44:05 -0700, Frank Yaeger <yae...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>Victor Gil on IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu> wrote on >08/26/2010 10:12:01 AM: >> Frank, >> >> Unfortunately, the 'hhmm' format is insufficient as the STCK timestamps >in >> question may cross midnight [so we need to account for a possible date >> change]. Is there a format that includes both the date and the time? > >You could get the current date and time in yyyymmddhhmm form by using >DATE1 and TIME2. You'd have to do the date/time arithmetic to subract >30 minutes correctly. > >You could get the converted STCK value in yyyymmddhhmm form by using >DC1 and TC2. > >> Also - yes, this is a VB file, so wouldn't the suggested >> manipulation actually >> affect the RDW value? > >You would add the new fields after the RDW with INREC and then >remove them with OUTFIL. So the records would temporarily >increase in size before OUTFIL processing (DFSORT would adjust >the RDW length automatically) and then be restored >to their original size after OUTFIL processing (again DFSORT >would adjust the RDW length automatically). > > INREC BUILD=(1,4,<new fields>,c:5) > >c would be the new starting position of the original data that >previously started in position 5. For example if the new fields >had a total length of 30, c would be 34. > > OUTFIL INCLUDE=(...), > BUILD=(1,4,5:c) > >Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Development Team (IBM) - yae...@us.ibm.com >Specialties: JOINKEYS, FINDREP, WHEN=GROUP, ICETOOL, Symbols, Migration > > => DFSORT/MVS is on the Web at http://www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
