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Posted: **Wed Jan 05, 2011 3:26 pm**

I've got a really simple statement that uses symbol substitution that won't seem to parse properly. Here are the sort control statements

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SORT FIELDS=COPY
INCLUDE FORMAT=BI,COND=(IBMSNAP_INTENTSEQ,10,GE,
X'0000C7212B7EBAAC0000',AND,
IBMSNAP_INTENTSEQ,10,LE,
X'0000C72138DBF3AA0000')

the output from SYMNOUT

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------- ORIGINAL STATEMENTS FROM SYMNAMES -------
IBMSNAP_INTENTSEQ,310

------------------ SYMBOL TABLE -----------------
IBMSNAP_INTENTSEQ,310

and the SYSOUT

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ICE270I 0 PROCESSING SYMNAMES STATEMENTS
ICE280I 1 ORIGINAL STATEMENTS FROM SYSIN FOLLOW
SORT FIELDS=COPY
INCLUDE FORMAT=BI,COND=(IBMSNAP_INTENTSEQ,10,GE,
X'0000C7212B7EBAAC0000',AND,
IBMSNAP_INTENTSEQ,10,LE,
X'0000C72138DBF3AA0000')
ICE282I 0 PERFORMING SYMBOL SUBSTITUTION AS NEEDED
INCLUDE FORMAT=BI,COND=(IBMSNAP_INTENTSEQ,10,GE,
$
ICE283A 0 SYMBOL, SYNTAX OR DELIMITER ERROR
X'0000C7212B7EBAAC0000',AND,
IBMSNAP_INTENTSEQ,10,LE,
X'0000C72138DBF3AA0000')
ICE287A 0 ONE OR MORE ERRORS ENCOUNTERED DURING SYMBOL SUBSTITUTION
ICE751I 0 C5-K90013 E7-K44563
ICE052I 3 END OF DFSORT

If I change the SYSIN to replace IBMSNAP_COMMITSEQ with 310, it works fine. But I already use this same symbol file in another sort job, where it works perfectly, so I'm at a bit of a loss to work out why it doesn't parse this properly. It's almost as if he doesn't realise that IBMSNAP_COMMITSEQ is a symbol in this context.

If anyone can offer any suggestions they would be most welcome, as I am out of ideas...

Posted: **Wed Jan 05, 2011 6:18 pm**

How about providing a line continuation character?

Posted: **Thu Jan 06, 2011 12:58 am**

You can't use a Symbol for p in that context. You must use a Symbol for p,m

This would work:

IBMSNAP_INTENTSEQ,310,10

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INCLUDE FORMAT=BI,COND=(IBMSNAP_INTENTSEQ,GE,...

Posted: **Fri Jan 07, 2011 1:32 pm**

Frank

Thanks for the info, I tried it and it works perfectly. Is this restriction documented anywhere?

Posted: **Tue Jan 11, 2011 1:56 am**

Yes, here:

http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/ ... 0630155256

you can use fields (p1,m1,f1 and p1,m1 and p2,m2,f2 and p2,m2)

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