Robert:
My memory has faded a lot but IIRC there are regularly SMF records
that are "short" all the time.
Without digging into the books too much I would print a few out and
find which type is the short ones and exclude those before the sort.
It seems to me that most SMF recs(except for the short ones) are at
least 100 bytes long.
That is why I would exclude them (minor issue for sort) to exclude them.
I wish I could remember off the top of my head which SMF records tend
to be short but the memory is failing with age (that is why we have
manuals).
Ed
On Feb 14, 2014, at 3:56 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
At 13:28 +0000 on 02/14/2014, Chase, John wrote about Re: WER027A
control field beyond record:
> -----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Micheal Butz
Seems like one of my sort fields maybe beyond a short record
Anything I can do about this
DFSORT has an OPTION VLSHRT to handle that situation. I'm
confident that Syncsort has something similar if not identical.
-jc-
I agree. If you are going to allow short fields, you need a way to
note that this will occur OR you need to throw an error (not
silently ignore the situation) when encountered. If you want to
make accepting short records a default action (by doing something
like I describe in my next paragraph) AT LEAST issue a warning
level alter (even if you do not issue a non-zero return code).
Otherwise abort the sort and/or throw a non-zero return code.
For purposes of doing the actual sorting, all that is needed is for
the sort to add a constant field to the sort fields it associates
with each record when the record is shorter than the end of the
last listed sort field in the SORT command. This would not affect
the record being output and since the added content is a constant
the sort order will be the same as if the record was long enough to
contain this field.
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