On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 17:19:55 +0000, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
>Use these PARM options for SYNCSORT to allow field references beyond the
>actual input record length:
>
>PARM=VLLTEST=2,VLTESTI=2'
>
>One of your VB input records is less than 17 bytes long (21 - 4 = 17).
>
A Google search seems to find those as SYNCSORT options but not as
DFSORT options. Is that right? But on:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.4.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r4.iceg200/ice2cg_Short_control_fields1.htm
Another way you can prevent DFSORT from terminating for VB records
with short compare fields, if appropriate, is by specifying the VLSHRT
option. For example:
OPTION COPY,VLSHRT
INCLUDE COND=(21,8,CH,EQ,C'Type 200')
VLSHRT tells DFSORT to treat any comparison involving a short field as
false.
In this example, any records less than 28 bytes are not included.
What other comparison operators are available. For example, I'd
be interested in whether:
OMIT COND=(21,8,CH,NE,C'Type 200')
... causes short records *not* to be omitted because "NE" is false.
-- gil
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