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I have a input VB file A with LRECL 573 and i need to generate a output FB file with LRECL 568. Both the files will look like below.

Input File A (in Hex format)


I need to copy the data present in 11h position, 6 chars to File B, 13 to 18th position as below. 0 to 12 and 19 till end will be initialized by us and it wont change.

Output File B (in Hex format)


We tired various methods (like one below) to copy but none seem to work as expected.



Kindly help us with this issue.

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It is not clear what you expect for output. The above would give you 12 blanks, 12 bytes of hexadecimal representation of the six bytes from position 11, and then 544 blanks. Is that anywhere close to what you want.

You need to show expected output for given input, and output you are receiving for given control cards. If you want all those blanks, just ditch the HEX bit and check your counting and you should be there.

Sorry for the ambiguity.

this input file would be spaces from position 14 till end of length (573)


and output file would be low values from position 17 till end of length (568)

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I need help with sortcard, to copy data (0C250416000C) from certain position (11,6) of VB file to a FB file (13,6). Rest of the data in output file will be constant and initialized by us, so no change in them. did i make it sound simple now? i tried hard to describe it in 5/10 words though.

Maybe a better title would have been "Copy/relocate data from VB to FB dataset".

Hello,

danny_ce16 wrote:I need help with sortcard, to copy data (0C250416000C) from certain position (11,6) of VB file to a FB file (13,6). Rest of the data in output file will be constant and initialized by us, so no change in them. did i make it sound simple now? i tried hard to describe it in 5/10 words though.

If I've understood it right, see if the below code helps:





The output comes as:



Hope this helped.