Hi all, I am taking a file and using PUSH and OVERLAY to condense
multiple input lines into a single line. That all works fine and I even
get the correct format output when I use OPTION COPY or SORT
FIELDS=COPY.
However, I want to sort on my OVERLAY area fields, but I get an error
message
ICE218A 3 117 BYTE VARIABLE RECORD IS SHORTER THAN 138 BYTE MINIMUM FOR
FIELDS
Because my input is a VBA file (out of my control), some of the records
are much shorter than my SORT FIELDS location.
What do I need to do to use SORT FIELDS=(...) here? Do I need to just
overlay the unneeded columns at the beginning of the record? All my sort
keys will be shorter than the shortest record in the file, but I
expected that by using INCLUDE statements to only keep the long records
I needed, I would not run into this.
My control cards say
OPTION VLSCMP
SORT FIELDS=(set1,set2, set3)
INCLUDE COND=...,OR, ...
INREC with multiple IFTHEN and PUSH and OVERLAYs
OUTFIL VTOF, INCLUDE,BUILD
There must be something simple I am missing (and there will be another
question tomorrow if I get this fixed).
Thank you and best regards,
Billy Ashton
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