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Thanks for all the suggestion guys, we discovered that more "sorting" is required than what we might have thought initially, we are going to look at other approaches to doing this. (This is what happens when you are converting an excel spreadsheet to a report, I guess). -----Original Message----- From: Dennis Lovelady [mailto:dlovelady@dtcc.com] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 1:12 PM To: midrange-l@midrange.com Subject: Re: Custom sort in a logical??? Hi, Rob: I don't understand why you say a translate table won't work. Of course, I don't know enough about the data... but if Group is a single-byte field, xlate table is the way to go, seems to me. Dennis rob@dekko.com@midrange.com on 11/09/2001 01:59:48 PM Please respond to midrange-l@midrange.com Sent by: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com To: midrange-l@midrange.com cc: Subject: Re: Custom sort in a logical??? I don't think a translation table will work. Unless your translation table converts Group 7 into Group 1 and Group 9 into Group 6, and leaves the rest of the groups alone. I haven't found a solution but I tried the following: SELECT iclas FROM iim GROUP BY iclas and got: Itm Cls 01 02 05 10 ... So then I tried SELECT case iclas when '01' then '02' else iclas end from iim group by iclas and got CASE expression 02 02 05 10 ... Which looks good except there are two '02'. So then I tried SELECT case iclas when '01' then '02' else iclas end from iim group by 1 and got: Column ICLAS or expression specified in SELECT list not valid. But if you don't need the GROUP but a simple ORDER will work try: SELECT case iclas when '01' then '02' else iclas end from iim order by 1 To create the view, or logical file: CREATE VIEW ROB/deleteme (ICLAS, IPROD) AS SELECT case iclas when '01' then '02' else iclas END, iprod from iim Then to test this new view: select iclas from rob/deleteme group by iclas will give you: ICLAS 02 05 10 ... Rob Berendt ================== "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin "Wills, Mike N. (TC)" To: "'midrange-l@midrange.com'" <midrange-l@midrange.com> <MNWills@taylorcorp cc: .com> Fax to: Sent by: Subject: Custom sort in a logical??? midrange-l-admin@mi drange.com 11/09/2001 12:39 PM Please respond to midrange-l Is it possible to do a custom sort order in a logical, if so how is this done? I need to group some things together differently than how it was set up. For example: I want Group 1 and 7 together and Group 6 and 9 together for easy processing. The rest then get sorted as normal after that. TIA, Mike _______________________________________________ This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. _______________________________________________ This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. _______________________________________________ This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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