You could look at running SORT FIELDS=COPY. SORT allows comments, and it should copy the input DCB info to SORTOUT if needed. And if the file happens to be large, it will likely outperform IEBGENER (assuming it's not actually ICEGENER, which is SORT in disguise).
SORT, of course, will gurgitate far more information than anyone usually cares to know. There's been a lot of misunderstanding of your intentions (including by me), but I think I've got it now. But I don't really get what the value of IEBGENER's SYSPRINT is to you anyway, commented or not. sas On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 2:02 PM, Roger Bolan <[email protected]> wrote: > https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.2.0/ > com.ibm.zos.v2r2.idau100/u1241.htm > > That page documents the standard format of the Utility control statements. > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 8:51 AM, Paul Gilmartin < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 21 Dec 2016 08:26:14 -0700, Sri h Kolusu wrote: > > > > > >Seriously? That COLS line was for demonstration purposes to show that > both > > >the Control cards and Comments are within the first 72 bytes. It is NOT > > >part of the control cards nor is it a comment. > > > > > I was hoping for a way to code a comment. > > > > >> And I was looking for a form where SYSIN contains no commands, only > > >comments. > > > > > >What is the purpose of this? When you are invoking a program/utility, > you > > >can pass parameters to the program/utility via a PARM statement or > SYSIN. > > >In your case you chose NOT to pass any parameters via SYSIN. That > brings > > >us to the question "what is the purpose of having comments?" > > > > > Adding identifying information to SYSPRINT, where I'd expect comments to > > be listed along with control statements. I needed none of the latter. > > > > >What is stopping you from coding a COMMENTS dd and you can have all your > > >comments in there? > > > > > ... and in the next job step modding IEBGENER's sysprint to that. > > I'm doing that now. But since IEBGENER already has a SYSIN, > > I was hoping I could put the comments there and avoid the extra > > job step. > > > > -- gil > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > -- sas ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
