Ken Leidner on IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on 06/22/2011 01:43:26 PM: > I want to take a numbered FB 80 dataset (member) and convert it to a > VB 255 format dataset, each line will really be 80 bytes long. > > I know how to reformat the line numbers 73-80 to the start of each > line, and I can add the RDW (54 00 hex) before that, but what must I > do to get the VB part? Will sort still think the output dataset is FB? > > Is there a keyword I need to use, much like when going from VB to FB? > > I don't have a place to run this right now, hence the question.
Ken, If you want to take FB/80 records that look like this: <72 bytes of data>nnnnnnnn and convert them to VB/255 records that look like this: rrrrnnnnnnnn<72 bytes of data> where rrrr is the RDW containing X'5400', you would use a DFSORT job like this: //S1 EXEC PGM=SORT //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=* //SORTIN DD DSN=... input file (FB/80) //SORTOUT DD LRECL=255,DSN=... output file (VB/255) //SYSIN DD * OPTION COPY OUTFIL FTOV,BUILD=(73,8,1,72) /* If that's not what you want to do, then please explain in more detail what you want to do. Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Development Team (IBM) - [email protected] 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 [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
