Posted by Guest - Reformatting Fields In The File : Hi, I have a requirement to reformat a file with fields say A B C to C B A .I tried it with outrec but got the error as inconsistent outrec file.Please suggest me on this.

Guest Says: outrec is the right way to do it, you are doing something wrong if you are getting errors

Frank Yaeger Says: I would need to see your DFSORT messages to tell you what you did wrong.  However, an educated guess would be that your input file has RECFM=VB, but you didn't specify the RDW (positions 1-4) in the OUTREC statement.  For a VB file, the first data byte starts at position 5, not position 1.  So for example, if A is in data positions 1-10, B is in data positions 11-20 and C is in data positions 21-30, then for a VB file, you would specify these DFSORT statements to get C B A:     OPTION COPY     OUTREC BUILD=(1,4,21,10,11,10,1,10) If that's not the problem, then you'd have to give more details about your input file's RECFM and LRECL, field positions, etc. 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 www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort

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