Re: TEXT file doubt -- MIDRANGE-L

Well, this question makes me want to rant - against IBM. In looking for the Sort user's Guide, I see that there is not any reference to PDM in the main InfoCenter site for V5R2. Are you kidding, IBM? If you search on FMTDTA, all you get are references to distributed data management.

At any rate, what you want is the Sort user's Guide (Who would know who's not been around this machine very long? - Oy!) to get to it (the link is below) means going to InfoCenter, to iSeries supplemental manuals. This takes you to a different window. There you need to go to the V5R1 PDFs link, where you can find the Sort manual, as well as the PDM guide.

The link is <http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r1/ic2924/books/c0918260.pdf>. I think you'd be best served by digging through that, as you have done with other stuff. I can't help, as I've never actually used FMTDTA.

What's really stupid, in my mind, is that the Application Development Manager manuals are still directly available in InfoCenter - and these have been officially terminated, right?

Egad!

HTH

Vern

At 05:20 AM 2/24/2004 -0800, you wrote:

Good Morning friends,

I have the following command in my CL

FMTDTA INFILE((&FLIB/YCP05305)) +

OUTFILE(&FLIB/YWKCP53T) +

             SRCFILE(YGSC/QDDSSRC) SRCMBR(YCP05310S) +
             OPTION(*NOPRT)


I know that some sorting is going on the infile
YCP05305  and producing the outfile YWKCP53T
based on the selection criteria written in the text
file YCP05310S.
when i saw this text file YCP05310S, i could see
following
 HSORTR    24A        3X  83 N N
 I
 FNC  10  17                       ACCOUNT
 FNC   4   5                       EXCH
 FNC   2   3                       FC
 FNC  25  26                       YEAR
 FNC  23  24                       MONTH
 FNC  58  58                       P/C
 FNC  39  43                       STRIKE
 FNC  76  77                       PROMPT DAY
 FDC   1  83
Can anyone let me know how the selection criteria is
happening here in the above text file(what is this
code doing), I could not understand. Also I have seen
some folks suggesting some time back some manual on
this textfiles to read.
I request you post it again  , Thanks so much for your
help! If more info is required plz ask me.

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