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Hi All,

How are you ?

I have a query on JCL Sorts. How Can we route out only odd records to OUT-FILE1 and even records to OUT-FILE2 from SORTIN file ?

Eg:

I/P File :

First Record
Second Record
Third Record
Fourth Record
Fifth Record
Sixth Record

after job executed,

OUT-FILE1 should have
First Record
Third Record
Fifth Record

OUT-FILE2 should have

Second Record
Fourth Record
Sixth Record




Thanks In Adv.
Reebahs.

What Sort product are you using, DFSORT, SyncSort or another?

If you don't know, look at the output messages from a Sort step, and tell us the message prefix (ICE = DFSORT, WER = SyncSort).

Are you saying you just want alternate records on the different output files?

Hi BillyBoyo,

ThankQ for your Quick response.

I`m using DFSORT.

Reg,
Reebahs.

This is simplified from an example in the "Smart DFSORT Tricks" publication, where the records were distributed between three output files. Have a look at that publication and see that there are several different ways to "split" a file. Have a look through the Table of Contents to give you some idea of what is inside. Then, when you have a particular task next time, you might remember where to find well-documented examples. Don't forget the "Getting Started" and "Reference" are also available on the web.

I have used SYSOUT=* for the output datasets, just for testing.

Smart DFSORT Tricks:

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss? ... g3T7000094

DFSORT books:

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss? ... g3T7000080