IBM Mainframe Forum

Hi all

iam getting the error OUTREC FIELD OUTSIDE RANGE using below sort

SORT FIELDS=COPY 0
OUTREC FIELDS=(2,133) 0
WER813I INSTALLATION OPTIONS IN MFX LOAD LIBRARY WILL BE USED
WER276B SYSDIAG= 14095505, 20164867, 20164867, 19249610
WER164B 7,908K BYTES OF VIRTUAL STORAGE AVAILABLE, MAX REQUESTED,
WER164B 4K BYTES RESERVE REQUESTED, 2,016K BYTES USED
WER146B 32K BYTES OF EMERGENCY SPACE ALLOCATED
WER108I SORTIN : RECFM=FBA ; LRECL= 133; BLKSIZE= 27930
WER073I SORTIN : DSNAME=XXX.P.KR0Z2R00.XXXIZ291.AFICH170.SA.G3227V00
WER230A OUTREC FIELD OUTSIDE RANGE
WER211B SYNCSMF CALLED BY SYNCSORT; RC=0000
WER449I SYNCSORT GLOBAL DSM SUBSYSTEM ACTIVE

Your input LRECL is 133 yet you're telling SORT to copy columns 2 through 134 -- see the issue?