Kolusu, Of course it was that. That is what happens when you copy something so it you will not have to write everything from scratch. I forgot to change that 12 to 8, as I did on the other places. Thank you so much for your help. That is one of those errors that was staring me on the face and yet I could not see it. At least most of the other stuff was as it should have been. My heartfelt thank you. This has been driving me crazy for the past two days. Best wishes. Jack
On Thu, 7 Sept 2023 at 15:52, Sri h Kolusu <skol...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > >> After tinkering a little bit more, as I was far form satisfied with the > last result, I managed to get twenty two output records: > > > Jack, > > Looking at the results, something does NOT add up. Your HLQ is 8 bytes, > however you have defined the symbol for it as FMT-HLQ as 12 Bytes. May be > the garbage values are being considered as a break. Can you turn HEX on the > 3 record output and see if you can see any values after the hlq ASCLI ? > > You can change the symbol > > FMT-HLQ,*,12,CH > > To > > FMT-HLQ,*,08,CH > > > Now re-run the job once again and see if you are getting the right > results. If you are still getting incorrect results, then please terse the > DCOLLECT file and send it as an attachment to my email offline and I will > see if I can find something. > > Thanks, > Kolusu > DFSORT Development > IBM Corporation > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
