Hello,
I have a requirement to generate a report, input to which is a VSAM file, key length=8; having 'n' records in it.
The report data is present uniquely on 1 record (only); this particular record has 400 occurances, each of length '54'.
I can build the report by individually passing the offsets for all the occurances, and thereby culling data from each occurance.
The challenge here is the length of the resulting SORT card, and if the occurances increase, that would mean piling onto the already large card.
My query is, is there an intrinsic function in DFSORT which would facilitate in these kind of situations where data has to be culled from such repetitive instances; thereby removing the need of giving the individual offset of each of the occurance bit - since the length of fixed data and the number of occurances, both are going to remain a constant - the only variable here being the offset of each occurance.
Thank you.