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Suppose if this is my input file




I want to sort this input file excluding the HEADER and TRAILER but the HEADER and TRAILER should be in the output of the sorted file.

i.e this should be the output




Is there a way to do it?

If you are wanting a sort solution why do you post in the Cobol section? And why do you not use the code tags? And why not give all the required details - LRECL, RECFM, approximate record count.

BTW - you have "datasets" not "files".

And why have you not searched or read the manuals? There you would have come across the DATASORT operator.

Moving to DFSort section.

ICETOOL's DATASORT is for exactly that case.

yeah..thanks billy


DATASORT FROM(SORTIN) TO(SORTOUT) HEADER TRAILER USING(ABCD)
SORT FIELDS=(27,18,CH,A)