Re: Reordering a file

Joe, its not a lot of elements, right?  Just load the records into an array,
then sorta.

 
      * Set the subfile for sorting - ascending & descending
     D                 ds
     D SflArrayUp                   850    dim(200)
     D  SortUp                       50    overlay(SflArrayUp)
     D  DataUp                      800    overlay(SflArrayUp:*next)
     D SflArrayDown                 850    dim(200) Descend
     D  SortDown                     50    overlay(SflArrayDown)
     D  DataDown                    800    overlay(SflArrayDown:*next)
That's how I did it to sort a subfile.  (DataUP) is a datastructure of the
actual data I want to display.  The SortUp field is for the fields I wish to
sort by. 
 
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Booth Martin
http://www.martinvt.com
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-------Original Message-------
 
From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Date: 11/18/04 09:45:46
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: Reordering a file
 
Who can think of quick ways to sort a file on a NON-key field?
 
 
 
Quick background: I have a menu file (option, program, description) that
I wanted to appear in the menu by program name.  Quick way out in my
mind: sort the physical file by program, then use SQL to set the option
equal to the relative record number - and voila the menu is in
alphabetical sequence.
 
 
 
Other options come to mind.  I could have removed the option number from
the file entirely and kept the program IDs in an array (or even in the
subfile itself if I didn't use page at a time processing).  This would
give me a lot more flexibility in ordering the records. That might not
be acceptable in a large ERP package where a specific menu option is
expected to always mean the same thing.
 
 
 
However, the way I chose worked, except that I couldn't find an easy
(i.e., single step) way to sort the records in a file based on an
arbitrary sort sequence.  I could have created a logical and sorted by
the logical, then deleted the logical.  I took the route of creating a
second file in QTEMP using STRSQL and doing a SELECT * ORDER BY on the
file, copying the temporary file back into the original and then
deleting the temp file.
 
 
 
Any other suggestions?
 
 
 
Joe
 
 
 
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