To merge 2 records (FB,VB) into 1 record (VB)

[hariharan_bk]

Thanks Enrico. Will try this in the morning.

One small query. Has this JCL been built considering one of the inp file as VB file right ? Also the output merge record shld be a VB record. It looks challenging to handle VB file in my case.

[hariharan_bk]

Thanks in advance. Much appreciated..

[enrico-sorichetti]

the format of the file being overlaid is pretty irrelevant for a copy operation,
this might not be the case, but You should take into account the presence of short records
the overlay might fail.

[BillyBoyo]

As long as there is no attempt to overwrite the first four bytes of the record, where the RDW lives, is is nothing special about an OVERLAY with regards to variable-length records.

The other two-step solution is to generate a symbol from your fixed-length record, and just use the generated symbol in the second step.

[hariharan_bk]

Thanks All.. It helped a lot.
Apologies for late reply