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Posted by Marek - Adding Fixed String To A Number Of Datasets : Hi, I have a simple thing to do: add 'abcdefg' to each record in a few FB files each with different record length. In theory it is easy: OPTION COPY OUTFIL BUILD=(C'abcdef',1,length) However, I do not want to have to provide the length. Since DFSORT knows the recl of the SORTIN, I would expect to not to have to code it explicitly. I don't want to have so many SYSINs where the only difference is the length. Is that possible? Regards, Marek

Guest Says: You could probably do a couple things like dynamically writing the sysin data, so then you execute the same sort multiple times but each time it executes with a different sort sysin. Thats probably what I would do if I understand the question right.

Marek Says: Hi, Thank you for your response. I have tried parameterizing it by: 1) passing a parm in the EXEC, like PARM=('JP1"&PRM1"','JP2"&PRM2"') with two SETs: // SET PRM1='abcdef' // SET PRM2=42       and: OUTFIL BUILD=(JP1,1,JP2),REMOVECC,VTOF (it is not working) 2) with PRM2='1,42' (it doesn't get it) 3) with SYMNAMES: //SYMNAMES  DD * SYM42,1,42       with: OUTFIL BUILD=(JP1,SYM42),REMOVECC,VTOF     The third solution works but since the files have each different length it means I will need many symbols and SYSINs anyway so there is no difference to coding them explicitly. So probably there is no other option but just do that. It's strange I would think it should be easy to code...

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