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Hi,

Need some help from someone on how to generate a header & trailer records alone by referring date card file.

Please find my requirement

Input :
----+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+---
********************************* Top of Data **********************
1406 20140602 20140602 DAILY 1406 20140603 00 N
(Previous date) (Current date)

Output :

H06032014
T060320140000000000000000

Can someone please help me on this....

Use OUTFIL BUILD with the slash operator (/), which allows the creating of multiple outputs from a single input record.


Should get you



Then replace the literals with the positions you want from your input data.

Not possible by JCL. Perhaps using your sort product for which BillyBoyo has given you the gist.