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Chapin,

I agree that SQL and SQLRPG could be a solution, but as you said, I
would like to avoid copying to a second file. How would I avoid that
with SQL/SQLRPG? FMTDTA is what we use now, but we've hit the max key
length. Your suggestion is valid, and I've seen this technique used in
our code, but I'm not sure that constructing the key value for each
record is going to be any quicker than OPNQRYF, and I'm still stuck with
a second file because the next "step" can't read an LF.

I believe the possible solutions at the moment are the QLGSORT API or a
QMQRY.

Great tip, though!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kaynor@xxxxxxx
> 
> The setup:
> 1) Add a new text field called something like "sort field" to 
> your file.   
> Make it as big as the concatenated sort keys might need to be.
> 2) Add a permanent LF ordered only by this "sort field."
>
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