OUTREC control statement is used to reformat (adds, deletes, or reformats fields) each record after they are sorted, merged, or copied by specifying all of its items one by one. This statement supports a wide variety of parsing, editing, and reformatting tasks. We can even add spaces/zeroes/any character into the output record based on the requirement. […]
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CHANGE in OUTREC statement can be used to look up and change the content in the file while sorting. Build parameter is used to reformat records. Build give complete control over output file format. BUILD parameter can be used on INREC and OUTREC statements in SORT card. BUILD parameter is an alias of the FIELDS
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The INREC control statements allow users to reformat an input record before processing. The user can Define the parts of an input record to be included in the reformatted input record. Denote the order they are to appear. How they are to be aligned. Insert blanks and binary zeros as separators before, between, and after
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PARSE and IFTHEN PARSE are new options that allow you to extract variable position/length fields into fixed-length parsed fields defined as %nn fields. It gives you powerful new capabilities for handling variable fields such as delimited fields, comma-separated values (CSV), tab-separated values, blank-separated values, keyword-separated fields, null-terminated strings, and many other types. The PARSE parameter
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IFTHEN statements allow you to reformat different records in different ways by specifying how build or overlay items are to be applied to records that meet given criteria. Use IFTHEN statements if you want to insert, rearrange, delete or overlay fields in different ways for different records. IFTHEN clauses for the OUTREC statement can be
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