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FMTDTA reads data from an existing file and writes it to a new file. The
data may be sorted in a variety of ways and some or all fields may be
written to the new file.

The sorting order and field selections are all specified in a script file.
The sort specs are not in the SRCPF for the file itself, but rather in a
FMTSRC file. It wouldn't be useful for you to see a lot of the details here
but in general the script file is written as FMTSRC and has specific
columns for specific functions. Column 6 determines the kind of
specification line, just as you are used to with RPG.

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/pubs/html/as400/online/v4r5eng.htm

from there, search for all books containing "Sort"

(Only one will show up. It has the details and several examples.)

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Booth Martin   http://www.MartinVT.com
Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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-------Original Message-------

From: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Date: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 00:00:32
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: FMTDTA

Hi all,
Can any body let me know "What FMTDTA command does" . I understand that it
processes series of sort spec stored in the SRCPF.
What does series of sort specs mean. Can you illustrate with an example

TIA
Vjiayendra

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