Re: Sorting a program described file -- MIDRANGE-L

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I went back and looked at my source. sheeeshhh... I had already done this back in 2003. But I had never made it work because I couldn't figure out how to substring a packed field.
The program described file has columns 28-31 as packed, 2 decimals. That is 7/2, right?
What is the SST? SST(field 28 4) doesn't seem right and I am not even sure how to test it.

Trevor Perry wrote:

Booth,

Construct a LF over your S36 file. Create the fields you need in the LF, and
then sort with those..
Trevor

P.S. The term is brain-fart. Not that yours has been running flat for years,
but.. :-)

On 12/24/08 10:43 AM, "Booth Martin" <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This may be a brain flat.

I have a Sys/36 environment program described file (QS36F) with no
index. I want to order the file for processing by field 1, field 3, and
field 2 (not contiguous, not in order). Until now it has been done with
a #gsort in OCL, and works fine.

I would like to not use OCL. Any ideas?

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