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Ezhil Murugan
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I've a File with around 300,000 records in it. I need to skip all records which has effective date value 13 months earlier to current date.
The effective date starts from 16th byte in the file and has a length of 6 bytes, It is in MMDDYY format
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Escapa
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dick scherrer
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Hello Ezhil,
Which sort product is used on your system (probably DFSORT or Syncsort)?
If you are not sure, the product information is at the top of the information created when a sort is run.
Knowing which sort product is used to determine which part of the forum supports your question. |
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Frank Yaeger
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OMIT COND=(16,6,ZD,LE,Y'DATE1'-360)
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This OMIT statement is invalid. A Y-constant cannot be used with ZD format - it can only be used with Y2x format. This would be valid:
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OMIT COND=(16,6,Y2W,LE,Y'DATE1'-360)
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And you'd need to set the century window correctly (Y2PAST option).
However, 30 * 13 is NOT really equivalent to 13 months since not every month has 30 days. Starting at a particular day of a month (e.g. August 25th, 2008) and going back 13 months is more subtle than subtracting 360 days unless a rough approximation is good enough. |
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Ezhil Murugan
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| I get the error message - DSS10080E VALUE 'Y'DATE1'-360' SHOULD HAVE BEEN A VALID SORT CONSTANT' when I try to use the above OMIT . Please help |
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Arun Raj
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Which SORT product are you using!!!!
Thanks,
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Ezhil Murugan
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I think it's DFSORT, I could see the following displays in one of my SORT jobs in the SPOOL
1ICE143I 0 BLOCKSET COPY TECHNIQUE SELECTED
ICE250I 0 VISIT www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort FOR DFSORT PAPERS, EXAMPLES AND MORE
ICE000I 1 - CONTROL STATEMENTS FOR 5694-A01, Z/OS DFSORT V1R5 - 11:39 ON FRI AUG 22, 2008
-0 SORT FIELDS=COPY |
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
Please post the jcl, sort control statements, and the jes output presented by the sort execution. |
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Ezhil Murugan
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Hi Sch,
I got that error message when I did a job scan. But the job went fine when I submitted it. Not sure why it is so.. Thanks for all your help. I got the expected results and what I need to do if the date in the file is in YYMMDD format? |
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enrico-sorichetti
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| got that error message when I did a job scan. But the job went fine when I submitted it. Not sure why it is so |
because job scanners are seldom in sync with the current syntax for dsfsort and syncsort |
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