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May be you can try either one of these -

Increase the LRECL of your output file to 150.
or


or


And finally you changed my name to Badinath

Hi bodatrinadh,

I tried both but did'nt work. same abend.

Hello,

You MUST change the output lrecl to account for the new data . . .

Thanks all of you.

It's clear that we can not overlay some fields for different type of record length. Is there any way from which it can be acheived?

If you use OVERLAY, the length of the original record will not change, just the data will be rearranged.

If you use BUILD, the length of the record will be that of the fields and constants included in the BUILD, and nothing else.

You cannot possibly get two output records from what you have shown. So, please, instead of just saying "it doesn't work", show us the relevant fields from you input, the output you are obtaining, the full sysout from the step, including all the Sort Control Cards. All in the Code tags to preserve spacing.

Hi BillyBoyo,

First, Sorry for my late reply.

My problem was:
Suppose i have 3 VSAM files F1, F2 and F3. These files F1,F2 is of 145 LRECL and F3 is of 1201.
First i have copied first record from F1 to F2. Now i have to overlay 19 bytes from the first record of F3(starting from position 82 to position 100 from F3 file) to the F2 file(position starting from 127 to 145).

Well, I have done this using SAS and IDCAMS. First i wrote a SAS for these positions then repro that file to the VSAM file.
If I am doing some mistakes in SORT, Please let me know.

Record from F1 looks like this(HEX is on):


Record from F3 looks like this(HEX is on):


Desired output:
Record from F2 looks like this(HEX is on):

Are you saying, you want to create a single record on F2, which is mostly the first record from F1, with part of the data coming from F3?

Yes BillyBoyo.

What you really want can be done with JOINKEYS.

To avoid confusion, we'll call your F2 the output.

You need something which is guaranteed to match on F1 and F3. It looks like the first byte will always be zero, you may choose anything as long as it will make the first records match.

Code up your JOINKEYS, and look at how to put STOPAFT=1 on the JOINKEYS and use the REFORMAT statement to create your output record for F2.