RE: sorting

[Angela Wawrzaszek <awawrzaszek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks everyone for the input.  I guess we are stuck between a rock and a
hard place...   We want the sort just the way it is on the as/400 because
this is out "size" field.  So when we sort items by their size code they
display nicely in alphabetic  order by their description.  But when we push
it over to sql since the sort is not the same we now have something that is
say 3" x3" (code = A1)  displaying before the 1" X 1" (code = AA) because of
the difference in the sort.  I will leave it up to the sales department on
how to handle this because to change that code to account for the sql server
involves thousands of item numbers,  then we have to force the sort to go
differently on the as/400......

Thanks again everyone!!

Angela Wawrzaszek
Nucor Steel Auburn
IT Department


-----Original Message-----
From: Phil [mailto:sublime78ska@yahoo.com]
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 12:03 AM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: sorting


The as/400 is sorting in hex and the sql server is probably sorting based on
language id.  If you were to bring one of the sql server tables over to the
as/400 you'd see it sort hex instead of by language id.

You can change your job to sort based on language id: chgjob
srtseq(*langidshr)

You can compile programs using srtseq(*langidshr)

You can also change the ODBC settings to sort differently.

I sometimes get a kick at watching users trying to figure out what's going
on.  They get together, print reports to compare, have meetings.   These are
usually people in the accounting dept.

Phil



> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
> [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Angela Wawrzaszek
> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 1:27 PM
> To: Midrange Mail List (E-mail)
> Subject: sorting
>
>
> I have a 2 position text field that I am sorting by.  The codes
> go from AA,
> AB...A1, A2... BB, B1  etc.  We are sending this to a sql server.
>  When they
> sort it,  the order is  A1, AA,  ...B1, BB   The numerics are taking
> precedence.  They say it is sorting ascii.  I thought ascii sort was
> alpha/numeric also???
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