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Hi Guys,

Is it possible to copy a part of record from one file to another file. Say a record of record length 200 and I want to copy record from 10th position to 100th position.

I know I can do it with SORT, SYNCSORT, ICETOOL, FILEAID and SAS as well. I wanted to know can we do the same thing with basic utilities like IEBGENER or IEBCOPY or IDCAMS. I have the same question for VSAM file also, I was checking for IDCAMS REPRO but didn't get any option with REPRO in my manual.

Please suggest me.

You can't do it with JCL, of course, since JCL only establishes the environment.

You can do it with IEBGENER, although unless you're working on an extremely back-level system, that's equivalent to using your sort product.

You can't to do with IEBCOPY or IDCAMS; that's not what they're intended for.

Read the fine manuals for these utilities.

With a VSAM data set, you would need to unload it to a sequential data set and then apply IEBGENER appropriately -- or use SORT / SAS / FILEAID / .... directly on the VSAM data set.

Thanks Akatsukami and Robert..

I think IEBGENER can be used with RECORD FIELDS option. I got this one in one of my manuals. It should work but right now my mainframe environment is down, I can not check it.

Hello,

Is there some reason you want to use IEBGENER instead of your sort product?

No specific reason is there.. I just wanted to know if we can do it without SORT or not. and If we can, then how. Normally we always use SORT utility for this.

Hello,

Ok, i was just curious.

In addition to the ways mentioned above, you can also do this rather easily with Easytrieve.

no idea about Easytrieve..

Hello,

Ask others if Easytrieve is installed on your system.

If it is, you can experiment with it.