Hi,
I have been asked in one interview that, how to retrieve the odd and even numbers records from the PS file to two output files all odd number into one output file and all even number into another output file using SORT.
I dont know the answer for this question. If anybody knows the answer means, please help me.
Thanks.
how to retrieve the odd and even numbers records
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It is a COPY operation with two OUTFILs.
With INREC you prepend/append a one-digit sequence number (depending on whether variable-/fixed-length records).
In the first OUTFIL you test that sequence number for being even with an INCLUDE=.
On the other OUTFIL you specify SAVE, which means you get all the records not written to any other OUTFIL.
On both OUTFILS use BUILD to remove the byte which has been added.
The test you need is a "bit mask" like this: B'.......0'. If your sequence-number byte matches that, you have an even number.
With INREC you prepend/append a one-digit sequence number (depending on whether variable-/fixed-length records).
In the first OUTFIL you test that sequence number for being even with an INCLUDE=.
On the other OUTFIL you specify SAVE, which means you get all the records not written to any other OUTFIL.
On both OUTFILS use BUILD to remove the byte which has been added.
The test you need is a "bit mask" like this: B'.......0'. If your sequence-number byte matches that, you have an even number.
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INREC IFTHEN=(WHEN=(1,1,BI,EQ,B'.......0'),
BUILD=(1,1,X,C'IT''S EVEN!'))
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