John Mattson at IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu> wrote
on 10/07/2011 02:04:48 PM:
> FRANK ! HEADER1 would do what I want, but the "header" may be up to
2,000
> chars long. Is this possible with OUTFIL?
Yes, the total number of header bytes can be that large (actually much
larger).
Caveat: Each individual character string ('string') in the header can be a
maximum of 256 bytes but you can have multiple such character strings. So
your REXX would have to be smart enough to build the header in valid pieces
and observe the continuation rules, e.g.
OUTFIL REMOVECC,
HEADER1=('string1',21:DATE,
35:'string2',51:TIME,...)
If you need help with the syntax for setting up your header, give me
details
on the pieces that make up the header (strings, fields, date, time, page,
etc).
Feel free to e-mail me offline with the details (yae...@us.ibm.com).
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
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