IBM Mainframe Forum

I posted following query some days ago :
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I have a PS like this

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mainframe > xxxxxxxxxxxxx
ramesh
suresh
nnnn
end of file

I want to search for the string "mainframe >" (this string is constant) using a JCL and then sort all the following records into another file
so the other file will contain all the following records :
ramesh
suresh
nnnn

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I got solution for this as follows and it worked :



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Since I did not understand the solution I asked whether my understanding of the solution (which I posted like below) was correct and got an answer that I was correct in my understanding..


WHEN=GROUP means we are working on a group of records (so this is input file)
when 'mainframe >' is encounterd in columns 1 to 11 we are assigning an ID to all the subsequent records( in 81st column). We are then omitting the records that have ID blank or those that start with 'mainframe >'

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Now I tried to sort the below file using the same solution (there are spaces at the start of 'ramesh', 'suresh', 'nnnn')

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mainframe > xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<some spaces>ramesh
<some spaces>suresh
<some spaces>nnnn
end of file

But this solution won't work. The output file is empty. Am I missing something in my understanding?


Regards,
Vinod

You have to show the sort cards which you are using. Otherwise we can have no idea.

check and see if you input is a VB file. if so then you need to add 4 bytes of RDW to the start position of the field to be checked.

As Kolusu says, if your input file has RECFM=VB, then the approach would be somewhat different (insert the id between the RDW and the first data byte).
If you confirm that your input file has RECFM=VB, we can show you how to do it correctly.

If your input file has RECFM=FB, then you need to show us your complete JES log with all of the messages you received so we can try to determine what you're doing wrong.