#DFSORT tips and Tricks

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8 DFSORT translate Parameters Just at one place

8 DFSORT translate Parameters Just at one place

DFSORT Transalte Parameters Many reformatting features are available with DFSORT’s INREC, OUTREC and OUTFIL statements, making each useful by itself or in conjunction with the other statements. INREC, OUTREC and OUTFIL can translate data in several new ways as follows: – TRAN=ATOE translates ASCII characters anywhere in a specified field to their equivalent EBCDIC characters. As a simple example,…

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The smart places to download DFSORT free pdf guide

The smart places to download DFSORT free pdf guide

The free pdf guides from IBM website: z/OS DFSORT Application Programming Guide (September 2015) z/OS DFSORT Messages, Codes and Diagnosis Guide (September 2015) You will also get free DFSORT guide with explanation from Amazon DFSORT guide with examples

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2 best ways split a file using DFSORT

2 best ways split a file using DFSORT

The OUTFIL operands SPLIT1R, SPLIT and SPLITBY can be used with the operands FNAMES and FILES to split records in various ways among multiple output data sets as follows: SPLIT1R=n writes the first n output records to the first output data set, the second n output records to the second data set, and so on; when each output data set has n records, any remaining records are written to the last…