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Posted: **Mon Jun 28, 2021 11:56 pm**

Could someone please tell me how to overlay a constant value, say '010' in PD format to a sortout file.
I tried but its not working.

OUTREC OVERLAY=(1:1,3,C'010',TO=PD,LENGTH=2)

Posted: **Tue Jun 29, 2021 1:18 am**

There is no such thing as “constant” when it is a field in a record of a dataset.

Use

 . . . OVERLAY=(1:1,3,
              +10,TO=PD,LENGTH=2)

How to overlay a constant value in PD format