AS/400 equivalent of Mainframes SORT utility

["Tarun Goel , Gurgaon" <goelt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

        Hi everybody,

        I'm working on a mainframe to AS/400 conversion project. My problem
is related to finding an equivalent of SORT utility of mainframes on AS/400.
Has anybody worked on this earlier, please let me know. I'm looking for
solutions for some specific features that the SORT utility has on
mainframes. Just to let everybody know about it, you can define summation
fields to SORT and it prevents overflow of such fields. To give an example:

        Let's say my input file has following fields

        FLD1            FLD2            FLD3
        AAAA            ZZZZ            1111
        AAAA            ZZZZ            8888
        AAAA            ZZZZ            2222
        AAAA            ZZZZ            4444

        And I specify in SORT to sort by FLD1 and FLD2 and sum up field
FLD3, the out put will have following data:

        FLD1            FLD2            FLD3
        AAAA            ZZZZ            7777
        AAAA            ZZZZ            8888

        See how it has added up FLD3 so as to prevent an overflow, though
the o/p is not really a unique record the SORT would not abend and the sum
field will also not be truncated. Can we generate similar output from
AS/400? If not then, what could be the best approach, so that we don't have
to touch existing applications processing logic, and we feed the processing
programs the same kind on input?

        Thanks everybody, in anticipation.

        Regards,
        Tarun Goel


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