Query on OUTREC Fields

ksk · Active User Joined: 08 Jun 2006 Posts: 253 Location: Pune

Hi All,

In our SORT cards, I found the following code. Can anybody let me know what the below statement means?

OUTREC FIELDS=(1C'INSA',X'0000000000000C')

As for as I know 1st four characters of the output file will contain INSA. I read in Google about X'0000000000000C' is a 7 character field pd7. This could also have been written as 6Z,X'00'C, where 6Z is 6 binary zeroes.
But I didn't understand what exactly it performs.

Similarly I found X'0000076C'.

Regards,
KSK

guptae · Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 3:37 pm Post subject:

Hello ksk,

It will insert X'0000000000000C' or X'0000076C' from 5th bytes .

ksk · Active User Joined: 08 Jun 2006 Posts: 253 Location: Pune

Hi Ekta,

Thanks for your prompt reply. X'0000000000000C' is a binary representation, so what value would be inserted.

In my case X'0000000000000C' was coded in OUTREC for a field which has been declared as s9(m)V9(n).

KSK

acevedo · Active User Joined: 11 May 2005 Posts: 265 Location: Spain

ksk · Active User Joined: 08 Jun 2006 Posts: 253 Location: Pune

Hi

Yes it is a field of COMP-3. and it's declaration is S9(4)V9(9) COMP-3.

KSK

acevedo · Active User Joined: 11 May 2005 Posts: 265 Location: Spain

if you code x'0000000000000C' in the outrec and you read that file with a field with picture S9(4)V9(9) COMP-3... the value of that field will be 0.

ksk · Active User Joined: 08 Jun 2006 Posts: 253 Location: Pune

Our input file has record length 79 and output has 480. this outrec filed is coming at 196-202 position in the output file.

My question is whether any value will be assigned from 196-202 in the output file because of this representation in OUTREC card? If so, what value would be assigned?

ksk · Active User Joined: 08 Jun 2006 Posts: 253 Location: Pune

Hi acevedo,

If 0 would be assigned for x'0000000000000C', what value would be assigned for X'0000076' and x'0000000000001C'?

ksk · Active User Joined: 08 Jun 2006 Posts: 253 Location: Pune

Sory it's X'0000076C'.

acevedo · Active User Joined: 11 May 2005 Posts: 265 Location: Spain

In my humble opinion now it's your time to read the manuals and try yourself... ( I answered you becouse I didn't notice it was the DFSORT forum).

Good luck.

Frank Yaeger · Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 8:54 pm Post subject:

KSK,

ksk · Active User Joined: 08 Jun 2006 Posts: 253 Location: Pune

Frank,

Sorry for the confusion. We have many fields in between these 2 fiedls. As I explained in my query, INSA is in 1 to 4 position and we have some other information from 5 to 195 and from 196th colomn, x'0000000000000C' was starting.

We have some other field also in between as X'0000076'. I would like to know what value will be assigned for this representation in output file. Shall we do Hexadecimal conversion for this or how can we come to know the value that would be displayed in the output file for any other representation?

Regards,
KSK

Frank Yaeger · Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 9:06 pm Post subject:

X'0000076'? I think you mean X'0000076C'. That's a PD value equal to a decimal value of +76. If you want to "display" it as a readable decimal value, you need to convert it appropriately. How exactly you would do the conversion depends on what you want the output to look like. For example, if your field started in position 1 and you used:

ksk · Active User Joined: 08 Jun 2006 Posts: 253 Location: Pune

Thanks Frank for your detailed explanation.