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Hi,

I have a file (FB LRECL=20) that contains following four records:

File
20230417ABCD20230420
20230418ABCD20230421
20230419ABCD20230424
20230420ABCD20230425

What I want to accomplish is:
-Take first eight position from record 1 and combine it with character ',' and eight last position from record 2.
-Take first eight position from record 2 and combine it with character ',' and eight last position from record 3.
-Take first eight position from record 3 and combine it with character ',' and eight last position from record 4.
-Take first eight position from record 4 and combine it with character ',' and eight last position from record 5 (but there are only four records so put eight spaces instead).

The output should be a file (FB LRECL=17) containing:
20230417,20230421
20230418,20230424
20230419,20230425
20230420,

Thanks in advance,

Mikael

Based on your post, one can think that you are the manager who assigns some tasks to the forum members?

I suspect this task has been assigned to yourself by your manager, but you decided to do nothing but hire free slaves from the forum, isn’t it?

Hint:
- Create two copies of input, with line sequence numbers starting from 1 in one copy, and starting from 2 in another one,
- Join two copies by their sequence numbers,
- Combine the required fields from joined records.
That’s it.

Try TO DO SOMETHING YOURSELF, before assigning your task to others.
This is the rule for this forum.

What have you tried so far??!!