Main Question - Posted From Guest:

Guest Says:
just use the outrec parm from 1 to the position of the e, then use from the position of the i to the length of the end of the line, so it just concatenates the 2 pieces together.

Frank Yaeger Says: You can use DFSORT's IFTHEN function if you want to make the change in particular positions, or DFSORT's FINDREP function if you want to make the change anywhere in the record.  For example, if you want to change "one|india" to "oneindian" at positions 21-29, you can use these DFSORT statements:    OPTION COPY    OUTREC IFTHEN=(WHEN=(21,9,CH,EQ,C'one|india'),      OVERLAY=(21:C'oneindian')) If you want to change it anywhere in your records you can use these DFSORT statements:     OPTION COPY     OUTREC FINDREP=(IN=C'one|india',OUT=C'oneindian') If you're not familiar with DFSORT and DFSORT's ICETOOL, I'd suggest reading through "z/OS DFSORT:  Getting Started".  It's an excellent tutorial, with lots of examples, that will show you how to use DFSORT, DFSORT's ICETOOL and DFSORT Symbols.  You can access it online, along with all of the other DFSORT books, from: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=114&uid=isg3T7000080 Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Development Team (IBM) - yaeger@us.ibm.com Specialties: JOINKEYS, FINDREP, WHEN=GROUP, ICETOOL, Symbols,  Migration                                                       DFSORT/MVS is on the Web at http://www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort

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