Re: Sorting a program described file

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Booth, you and I were once awarded buttons by David for having the most 
posts in a year - I think we were effectively tied for the number. That 
was back in 1998 or so.

So I bet you have asked every question here at least once! But I dare 
you to find them in the archives!

Vacation next week but you might see me from time to time - this is kind 
of addictive, you know!!

Merry Christmas!
Vern

Troy Foster wrote:
>    or 6,2
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>    On 12/24/2008 11:46 AM, Booth Martin wrote:
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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.
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>  Trevor Perry wrote:
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>  Booth,
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>  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.. :-)
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>  On 12/24/08 10:43 AM, "Booth Martin" <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>  This may be a brain flat.
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>  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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