Ron, Bart has explained as to what the control cards are doing. Are your Input files VB? If so you need to modify your control cards to retain the VB file attributes.
Thanks, Kolusu DFSORT Development From: Ron Thomas <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 10/22/2014 09:16 PM Subject: DFSORT Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> Hello We have the below sort card in production, we are joining on the first 8 bytes . The file is currently unsorted on 1-8 bytes . Could some one please let me know how to modify the control card to do the sort on 1'st 8 bytes and then do a join ? JOINKEYS F1=ITEM,FIELDS=(01,08,A) JOINKEYS F2=CLUB,FIELDS=(01,08,A) REFORMAT FIELDS=(F1:5,167,F2:1,4,9,78) SORT FIELDS=(1,4,BI,A, 168,4,BI,A) Thanks Ron T ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
