Re: SORT on the iSeries...

["Steve Landess" <sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael -

FMTDTA:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/cl/fmtdta.htm

Sort User's Guide and Reference - (IBM Document Number SC09-1826-00):
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/BOOKS/QBKAQ100/CCONTENTS?DT=19940606151250

Regards,
Steve Landess
Austin, Texas
(512) 423-0935

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Rosinger" <mrosinger@xxxxxxxxx>
Newsgroups: midrange.midrange-l
To: <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 8:38 AM
Subject: SORT on the iSeries...


> 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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