Re: SORT on the iSeries...

[Rich Loeber <rich@xxxxxxxxx>]

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
>
> --
> 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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