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by cmkatz
Mon Jul 13, 2009 2:08 pm
Forum: DFSORT , ICETOOL & Utilities
Topic: Splitting a file by counting records
Replies: 2
Views: 7572

Splitting a file by counting records

Hi there, I have the following problem: i have to split a big file into a unknown number of smaller files. The big files (already sorted) can contain more than 35 million records. Now I need smaller files containing not more then 15 million records. Can I do this using DFSORT or ICETOOL? thank you c...
by cmkatz
Mon Jun 08, 2009 12:08 pm
Forum: COBOL
Topic: MOVE alphanumeric TO numeric -> strange effect
Replies: 2
Views: 5163

Hi,

this is a simple MOVE-Statement:

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MOVE F-ALPH TO F-NUM
by cmkatz
Fri Jun 05, 2009 10:56 pm
Forum: COBOL
Topic: MOVE alphanumeric TO numeric -> strange effect
Replies: 2
Views: 5163

MOVE alphanumeric TO numeric -> strange effect

Hi everybody, I recognized a strange behaviour in COBOL: following situation: 01 F-NUM PIC 9(8) VALUE LOW-VALUE. 01 F-ALPH PIC X(8) VALUE '300000 '. now I want to move the alphanumeric field to the numeric field. We use a debugger called XPediter, and if I look at the field F-NUM aft...
by cmkatz
Wed Nov 19, 2008 2:42 am
Forum: DFSORT , ICETOOL & Utilities
Topic: "Merge" two files in a special way
Replies: 9
Views: 18064

ok, I'll give it a try, thank you. But: It could be difficult to ask our System Operator to update our system, because we're a big and worldwide company. It's a loooong way (and needs many instances to say "yes") for a "simple developers" to get suggestions realized. (I hope you can understand what ...
by cmkatz
Wed Nov 19, 2008 12:31 am
Forum: DFSORT , ICETOOL & Utilities
Topic: "Merge" two files in a special way
Replies: 9
Views: 18064

didn't work, but I found a work around

So, here's my feedback... it didn't work, I always got an error messages saying that cntlout is missing or can not be allocated (I can't recall the correct message). I searched the internet and found some information, that the reason for this message may possibly be a missing T1 dataset, so I define...
by cmkatz
Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:42 am
Forum: DFSORT , ICETOOL & Utilities
Topic: "Merge" two files in a special way
Replies: 9
Views: 18064

Thank you very much!!

I'll try tomorrow (I'm from Germany, now it's 10:43 pm local time) and give a feedback asap.

cmkatz
by cmkatz
Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:20 am
Forum: DFSORT , ICETOOL & Utilities
Topic: "Merge" two files in a special way
Replies: 9
Views: 18064

Sorry, I forgot to mention:

File A: RECFM=VB
File B: RECFM=FB
File C: RECFM=FB

No, none of the files have duplicate keys, and the keys are in ascending order

Thank you for your answer!
cmkatz
by cmkatz
Tue Nov 18, 2008 12:18 am
Forum: DFSORT , ICETOOL & Utilities
Topic: "Merge" two files in a special way
Replies: 9
Views: 18064

"Merge" two files in a special way

Hi there, I hope you can help me! I have two input-files with following records: File A (LRECL=8000, variable length, first two bytes have the information of the recordlength, Sortkey on Byte 58, Length = 6 Bytes): ..text1...... ABC6DEF BLABLA... ..text3...... CFHGSTZ TEXT... ..text4...... I4GHD5G T...