What is Inrec and Outrec?
INREC is processed BEFORE the records are sorted, merged or copied. OUTREC is processed AFTER the records are sorted, merged or copied.
What is Outrec?
The OUTREC control statement allows you to reformat the input records after they are sorted, merged or copied. The OUTREC control statement supports a wide variety of parsing, editing, and reformatting tasks, including: The use of fixed position/length fields or variable position/length fields.
What is Inrec overlay in sort?
INREC OVERLAY operation is used in order to rewrite data in input file before copying to output.
How is GDG defined?
Generation Data Groups (GDGs) are group of datasets related to each other by a common name. The common name is referred as GDG base and each dataset associated with the base is called a GDG version. For example, MYDATA.
How do you use an Inrec overlay?
INREC control statement use in SORT
- 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 the fields in the reformatted input records.
What is the difference between INREC and OUTREC?
INREC and OUTREC can both reformat records in the same way and are often interchangeable. However, if you need SORT to see the reformatted records, you would use INREC. For example: Here we’re adding a sequence number to each record so we can sort on it. INREC works for this because it add the sequence numbers before the records are sorted.
What is the use of INREC statement?
In other words INREC statement is used to add, delete or to rearrange the fields of dataset before records are sorted, merged or copied. IMP NOTE: Explanation for all these parameters are already detailed in previous articles ‘OUTREC FIELDS or BUILD’, ‘OUTREC OVERLAY’, ‘OUTREC FINDREP’, ‘OUTREC IF THEN clauses’.
What is the difference between sort and INREC?
However, if you need SORT to see the reformatted records, you would use INREC. For example: Here we’re adding a sequence number to each record so we can sort on it. INREC works for this because it add the sequence numbers before the records are sorted.
What is the difference between INREC 50-4 and INREC 40-43?
But the INREC statement works differently because of the PD fields. 50,4,PD indicates input positions 50-53 has a PD field to be converted using the M0 edit mask. Likewise, 40,4,PD indicates input positions 40-43 has a PD field to be converted using the M0 edit mask.
