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Michael,

On the System i, the sort command is FMTDTA (Format Data).  You can specify and
input file, an output file and a set of sort specifications that you store in a
member of a source physical file.  You should be able to nail down the specs in
the documentation that you have.

Rich Loeber
Kisco Information Systems
http://www.kisco.com
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Michael Rosinger wrote:

List,

This is an iSeries newbie question so please bare with me. We are getting
started on the project of migrating applications (all batch) from VSE
(mainframe) to iSeries. I was "told" by someone that is a long-time AS/400
person that "there is no system sort on the iSeries". I find that very hard
to believe. There must be some system provided sorting mechanism. I see that
ILE/COBOL fully supports the SORT verb so that must be interfacing with a
system-provided utility.

I searched for "sort" in the iSeries information center and could not find
any explicit references to a sort program or utility.

Perhaps the person meant that there is no "sort program" that you can
explicitly execute in batch (as you can in the VSE world). Could someone
authoratively clear this up for me please? TIA

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Regards,

Michael Rosinger
Systems Programmer / DBA
Computer Credit, Inc.
640 West Fourth Street
Winston-Salem, NC  27101
336-761-1524
m rosinger at cciws dot com

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