RE: Reordering a file

[qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Tom Liotta)]

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   3. Reordering a file (Joe Pluta)
>
>Who can think of quick ways to sort a file on a NON-key field?

Joe:

I'd probably go with QLGSORT/QLGSRTIO. If you already know FMTDTA (and then 
APIs in general), it's not that bad. The sort APIs are very much like FMTDTA 
but with more flexibility on what you can send in and get back out, plus the 
sort specs are dynamic rather than coming from a source file member.

If you wish, you can output back to the input file and then read it 
sequentially and update. But I'd probably output back to a buffer rather than 
an outfile and write the updated images from the buffer.

Tom Liotta


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