Incresaing record length of VB file in run JCL

siddhartha biswas · New User Joined: 04 May 2008 Posts: 11 Location: india

Hi all,

I need to merge three variable block files with different record lengths (header, trailer and content files) into one file. But for that I should increase the record length of the header and trailer files to make it equal to the length of the content file. Do any one has a solution for this?

arcvns · Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 12:50 pm Post subject:

siddhartha,

For VB files, RDW field will hold lengths of individual records.
Could you please post a few sample records with file-attributes of input/output files.

Thanks,
Arun

siddhartha biswas · New User Joined: 04 May 2008 Posts: 11 Location: india

Header record (vb) lrecl: 50
Content record(vb) lrecl: 150
Trailer record (vb) lrecl: 50

I need to increse the length of header and trailer records to 150 so that I can merge all three files in the same sequence as given above.

Sambhaji · Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 1:01 pm Post subject:

Simplest way is to use VTOF and make all files to fixed length(max of all)
then you can easily merge it to one...

Garry Carroll · Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 1:46 pm Post subject:

arcvns · Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:56 pm Post subject:

siddhartha,

As pointed out by Garry, you can achieve this by setting the Output LRECL to the maximum of all the 3 files.

You might want to give this a try.