Re: DFSORT / SORT and value/necessity of FILSZ parameter

2024-07-22 Thread Verwijs, Frederick F [NC]
Thank you kindly. That's helpful. Regards, Eric Verwijs Chef d'équipe intérimaire, RPC, SV et solutions de paiement - Direction générale de l'innovation, information et technologie Emploi et Développement social Canada / Gouvernement du Canada frederick.verw...@hrsdc-rhdc

Re: DFSORT / SORT and value/necessity of FILSZ parameter

2024-07-21 Thread Verwijs, Frederick F [NC]
Thank you for answering. The dataset is not sorted first, at least I think we don't. We use OPTION COPY. //SYSIN DD * OPTION COPY OUTFIL FNAMES=SORTOFT1,VTOF, OUTREC=(5,1872), INCLUDE=(16,2,CH,EQ,C'98') OUTFIL FNAMES=SORTOFT2,VTOF, OUTREC=(5,1872),

DFSORT / SORT and value/necessity of FILSZ parameter

2024-07-19 Thread Verwijs, Frederick F [NC]
Hello All, Unless I'm misreading the manual, from the DFSORT Application Programming Guide, FILSZ can be used to improve performance. We run sort splits on large tape datasets, with over a hundred million records. They get split into 3 separate datasets, depending on the data. These jobs do not

Re: ICETOOL / SORT capturing count of output records when using INCLUDE

2022-11-22 Thread Verwijs, Frederick F [NC]
Thanks very much Kolusu, That worked. I'll have to study the parameters so as to understand how to build these.    Regards,         Eric Verwijs Programmeur-analyste, RPC, SV et solutions de paiement - Direction générale de l'innovation, information et technologie Emploi et Déve

Re: ICETOOL / SORT capturing count of output records when using INCLUDE

2022-11-18 Thread Verwijs, Frederick F [NC]
Hello Kolusu, I can't get it to work. Our input file is a tape variable block. The data we are selecting on is at byte 16, already adjusted for the 4 bytes. My output file will be tapes, FB, 1872 bytes. All the data from the input tape. I get: ICE027A 9 END OF OUT1 FIELD BEYOND MAXIMUM RECO

Re: ICETOOL / SORT capturing count of output records when using INCLUDE

2022-11-18 Thread Verwijs, Frederick F [NC]
Thanks so much Kolusu. That's perfect and just what we need. I really appreciate your speedy response.    Regards,         Eric Verwijs Programmeur-analyste, RPC, SV et solutions de paiement - Direction générale de l'innovation, information et technologie Emploi et Développement