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If my file contains 100,000 records and job abended at
55,000th records processing then how can i restart job from
that record onward by ignoring that record. I can not edit
the file as file size is big and it is getting browse
substituted?

Question Posted / srprev

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If my file contains 100,000 records and job abended at 55,000th records processing then how can i r..

Answer / neeraj

I think this logic is sufficient to fullfill this req:


// pgm=dfsort
/*
sort fields=copy,skiprec=55000
*/
//srtin dd dsn=orig-file
//sortout dd dsn=newfile

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If my file contains 100,000 records and job abended at 55,000th records processing then how can i r..

Answer / lenin

if the file used in cics region, we can browse and read the
file from the record after the fault record by using
startbr,readnext and endbr commands.

if not, we can copy all the records after the fault record
to the new file and we read the new file,

The following code is used to create a new file which will
have the records after the fault record

// pgm=dfsort
/*
sort fields=copy,stopaft=45000,skiprec=55000
*/
//srtin dd dsn=orig-file
//sortout dd dsn=newfile
...

--Then you can read the new file in the cobol program.

Please correct me if i am wrong.

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If my file contains 100,000 records and job abended at 55,000th records processing then how can i r..

Answer / sj@iy

Code sort fields as
SORTIN DD *
OPTION COPY
SKIPREC(55000)
/*

This will skip all records upto and including 55000th record

OR

SORTIN DD *
OPTION COPY
OUTFIL STARTREC=550001,ENDREC=100000
/*
This will copy records from 550001 to 100000

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If my file contains 100,000 records and job abended at 55,000th records processing then how can i r..

Answer / tdagar

We can skip 55000 records using File-Aid as well. Copy the
file into another file and mention 55000 against Skip
records.

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If my file contains 100,000 records and job abended at 55,000th records processing then how can i r..

Answer / hemant borase

// pgm=dfsort
/*
sort fields=copy,stopaft=55000,skiprec=55000
*/
//srtin dd dsn=orig-file
//sortout dd dsn=newfile
...

correct me if i am wrong because we need to skip only
55,000th record.
am i rt?

Is This Answer Correct ?    1 Yes 3 No

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