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Thousands of ways. Millions. Bit of a silly question.

Well that is a completely ridiculous assertion, which is entirely incorrect.

If you want to know what is wrong, show your full SORT cards, your SYSOUT for the step, representative sample input which shows the issue, expected output, and output obtained.

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Well, if you are talking about a Mainframe system, if you do not know how to troubleshoot spool problems, then you won't need to know. Unless you are a System's Programmer, you will never do this, and will never be allowed to do this. Your site will likely be running JES2 or JES3. Determine which, g...

IBM manuals for this are freely available. What did you not find? Why would you expect any response within one minute? Did you pay extra to expect such service?

For reversing the sign of a value, subtracting from zero is more efficient than multiply by minus one.

If you want to change all occurences of that value to 16 X's (or anything else) look at using FINDREP.

Use your SORT product, with a COPY operation, and multiple OUTFIL statements (or multiple files for one OUTFIL). Why do you want to do this?

Have you looked at the documentation of the data functions your SORT product has available?

So you are spamming a charity announcement? That's nice.

Oh, you are a Doctor and you forgot the kids' vaccines?

I'm not really sure which is worse.

Well, you'll need to SORT on branch, so that leaves SUM as an easy option, but I think still better to use OUTFIL reporting features, REMOVECC,NODETAIL and SECTIONS with TRAILER3. SORT will take care of the field-sizes, with SUM you have to do that yourself (extending the fields in INREC if they may...

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No, you've just written that so you can post SPAM.

Is the program eventually to run on a Mainframe? KSAM is not a Mainframe dataset-type. Doing lots of keyed reads will take lots of time. You should test your program with very small files, so that you know the program logic works, before using bigger files. You should be doing keyed reads, not seria...

Well, there is only one step. It just copies the dataset on SYSUT1 to the dataset on SYSUT2 (which is the spool). Basically it is "printing" the dataset.