SORT – OUTREC – TRAN

In SORT, you can make use of TRAN=keyword to do the following functions.

1. TRAN=UTOL translates uppercase letter (A-Z) in the field to the equivalent lowercase letter (a-z).
   

Input file:

RAJESH

SURESH

RAMS

SUNIL

CHIRU

Output File:

Rajesh

Suresh

Rams

Sunil

Chiru

OUTREC in the sort would look as below so that your first char remains as upper case and the others are converted to lower case

OUTREC FIELDS=(1,1,2,5,TRAN=UTOL)

Here 2,5,TRAN=UTOL is of the format p,m,TRAN=UTOL.

1. TRAN=LTOU translates lowercase letters (a-z) in a field to the equivalent uppercase letters (A-Z)
   

1. TRAN=ETOA translates EBCDIC characters in a field to the equivalent ASCII characters.
   

1. TRAN=ATOE translates ASCII characters in a field to the equivalent EBCDIC characters.
   

1. TRAN=ALTSEQ translates characters in a field to other characters as specified by an ALTSEQ statement. For example, “null” characters (hex 00) can be changed to blank characters (hex 40)
   

1. TRAN=HEX translates binary values in a field to their equivalent EBCDIC hexadecimal values (‘0’-‘F’). 2 output characters are produced for each input byte.
   

1. TRAN=BIT translates binary values in a field to their equivalent EBCDIC bit values (‘0’ or ‘1’). 8 output characters are produced for each input byte.
   

1. TRAN=UNHEX translates EBCDIC hexadecimal values (‘0’-‘F’) in a field to their equivalent binary values. An output byte is produced for each 2 input characters.
   

1. TRAN=UNBIT translates EBCDIC bit values (‘0’ or ‘1’) in a field to their equivalent binary values. An output byte is produced for each 8 input characters.
   

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