Once again your solution amazes me with its elegance, simplicity and efficiency, if only because I could not conceive of it before you proposed it.
Thank you! Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Frank Yaeger Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 1:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: MERGE question: Does SEQNUM restart for each SORTINxx? Peter Farley at IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on 03/30/2012 06:35:35 AM: > One further question about this technique -- If possible, I would > like to have the DATE field in the trailer contain the same business > processing date as the only selected header record. Is there any > way in SORT to "save" the date value from the header record and > propagate that date to the trailer? That header date is NOT > necessarily the current system date (e.g., on weekends and > holidays), so I cannot just use the "current" date to fill the > trailer date field. There are several ways to do that with DFSORT, but the easiest way is to generate a symbol for the target date from that first record. Here's the DFSORT job for that: //S1 EXEC PGM=SORT //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=* //SORTIN DD DSN=... input file 1 (VB) //SORTOUT DD DSN=&&S1,UNIT=SYSDA,SPACE=(TRK,(1,1)),DISP=(,PASS) //SYSIN DD * OPTION COPY,STOPAFT=1 OUTFIL VTOF,BUILD=(C'TARGDATE,''',22,6,C'''',80:X) //S2 EXEC PGM=SORT //SYMNAMES DD DSN=&&S1,DISP=(OLD,PASS) //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=* //SORTIN01 DD DSN=... input file 1 (VB) //SORTIN02 DD DSN=... input file 2 (VB) //SORTIN03 DD DSN=... input file 3 (VB) //SORTOUT DD DSN=... output file (VB) //SYSIN DD * OPTION VLSCMP,VLSHRT OMIT COND=(((5,3,CH,EQ,C'000'),AND, OMIT(HEADER RECORD AND (34,5,CH,NE,C'FILE1')),OR, NOT FILE1) OR (5,3,CH,EQ,C'999')) TRAILER RECORD) MERGE FIELDS=(5,3,CH,A),EQUALS OUTFIL REMOVECC, TRAILER1=(C'999FILE TLR CNT=', COUNT-1=(TO=ZD,LENGTH=11), C',DATE=',TARGDATE) /* -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
