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Team, Please let me know how to add blank characters towards the end of records. Suppose I have record length of just 16 and I want to make it to 80. So from 17 to 80, I just need to add blank characters. Let me know how can I do this in DFSORT Thanks Arun R

Guest Says:
You might be able to just specify the length in the jcl file layout when creating it new, specify FB (fixed block) and length 80 (lrecl 80) and I think that might pad it for you even without specfiying the outrec padding, etc. I'm not at my machine right now so I can't test that but thats what I would try

Guest Says:
You use outrec with whatever num spaces you want like OUTREC FIELDS=(36,6,C' ') (This would put 20 blanks after the first 6 bytes)

Guest Says:
I guess that doesnt display right on the msgboard but I put 20 spaces between the quotes

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