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I need to check if the data in i/p file is greater than 200 using DFSORT,

I/p file:
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any-positive-integer
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LRECL = 18, BLKSIZE = 18, TYPE = FB

I am using,

OUTREC IFTHEN=(WHEN=(1,18,ZD,GT,+200),BUILD=(1,18))

I have also tried,

INCLUDE=(1,18,ZD,GT,+200)

but its not working...

O/p contains only I/p data...pls help to rectify
or let me know if any other info required,

In the future, please post your question in the appropriate area.

I apologize.., but pls elaborate yourself...

The topic has been moved to the correct part of the forum.

Can you show a sample of your data, please?

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shivanshu26shiv (Mon Jun 01, 2015 9:58 pm)

Thanks for moving but pls do tell me the place to avoid any future dicrepancies,

As I have said, data consists of 1 line positive integer for eg;
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123-> here I need to check that 123 < 200,
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or
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321-> here I need to check that 321 > 200,
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For DFSORT questions, there is a DFSORT section underneath the IBM Utilities and Tools

OK, you said, but we didn't know exactly what you'd got wrong. Now we do. Your data is not ZD, so what you coded on the INCLUDE won't work.

Use UFF instead of ZD as the type in your INCLUDE.

Thanks BillyBoyo,

INCLUDE=(1,18,UFF,GT,+200) worked,
but
IFTHEN=(WHEN=(1,18,UFF,GT,+200),BUILD=(1,18)) didn't..

Anyways thanks.

You say the IFTHEN didn't work, but how would you know? All it is doing is creating a new current record, identical to the old.

If you change the BUILD to =(1,18,C'!') I think you'll find it "working", just not doing what you hoped it would do. The only way records can be selected is with INCLUDE COND=, OMIT COND= and INCLUDE=/OMIT= on OUTFIL. IFTHEN is nothing to do with record selection.

It worked, thanks a lot