I am giving it a try, please correct me if anything is wrong //JOBNAME J

Suppose i have a file with 10 recs and i want to skip only the
7 th record and copy the rest into another file. How do i do
it using SORT?

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I am giving it a try, please correct me if anything is wrong

//JOBNAME JOB `ACCINFO`,MSGCLASS=X
//STEP001 EXEC PGM=DFSORT
//SORTOUT DD DSN=ABC.DEF.GHI
// DISP=(,CTLG)
//SORTIN DD DSN=ABC.EXAMPLE.INFILE,DISP=SHR
//SORTOUT DD DSN=ABC.EXAMPLE.OUTFILE,DISP=(,CATLG,DELETE)
//SORTOF01 DD DSN=ABC.EXAMPLE.OUTFILE,DISP=SHR
//SORTOF02 DD DSN=ABC.EXAMPLE.OUTFILE,DISP=SHR
// DCB=*.SORTIN,SPACE=*.SORTIN
//SYSIN DD *
SORT FIELDS=COPY
OUTFIL FILES=01,STOPAFT=06
OUTFIL FILES=02,SKIPREC=07,STOPAFT=10
/*
//SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=* =COPY
//

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