IBM Mainframe Forum

by **raghuraman** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 3:27 pm

//SYSIN DD *
OPTION COPY,VLSHRT
INCLUDE COND=(22,07,CH,EQ,C'H190072')
OUTREC FIELDS=(1,4,22,20)
/*

for this declaration i am getting the below error

ICE218A 6 13 BYTE VARIABLE RECORD IS SHORTER THAN 28 BYTE MINIMUM FOR field

by **Frank Yaeger** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 9:08 pm

These DFSORT statements would handle your short VB records:

//SYSIN DD *
OPTION COPY,VLSCMP
INCLUDE COND=(22,07,CH,EQ,C'H190072')
OUTREC IFTHEN=(WHEN=INIT,BUILD=(1,4,22,20))
/*

how to declare outrec statement for VB recformat?