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Re: Sorting a program described file

Booth Martin escribió:
This may be a brain flat.

I have a Sys/36 environment program described file (QS36F) with no index. I want to order the file for processing by field 1, field 3, and field 2 (not contiguous, not in order). Until now it has been done with a #gsort in OCL, and works fine.

I would like to not use OCL. Any ideas?

#GSORT allows for creation of an "addrout file" ("record address file"...) over the original (physical) file, "kind of" like an index...
Then, in the program, you describe BOTH files, the physical and the addrout (one as IP, the other as IR, don't recall which one is either one). The (physical) file is then processed in the order you want, without you having to change anything else in the program, but just the F specs as I mentioned.
HTH, and Merry Xmas!


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