title: How to check for Null (or other than value '1' , '2'') from position 68 to 69 in a Variable Block file. Records may end before position 27
body: <p>I need to get the count for anything having value other than '1' or '2' in position 688.</p>
  
  <p>IS it possible by Easytrieve or SORT in JCL ?
  I have done it like this </p>
  
  <p>-[ Character on 653 position should not be spaces AND ( CHeck 688 NE 1 .'AND'  688 NE '2']</p>
  
  <pre><code> INCLUDE COND=
               ((653,5,CH,NE,C'     ',AND,((688,2,CH,NE,C '1 ',AND,688,2,CH,NE,C '2 ')))
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>can we do it in more efficient or other way ?</p>