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Re: SQL output to Printer - anyway of marking/tagging the spoolfile with the PF name

On 27-Sep-2016 11:31 -0500, Rob Berendt wrote:
Then there's always

SELECT "LIB1", "FILE1", Date-field,count(*)
FROM LIB1/FILE1
GROUP BY Date-field
ORDER by Date-field
UNION ALL
SELECT "LIB2", "FILE2", Date-field,count(*)
FROM LIB2/FILE2
GROUP BY Date-field
ORDER by Date-field
UNION ALL
SELECT "LIB3", "FILE3", Date-field,count(*)
FROM LIB3/FILE3
GROUP BY Date-field
ORDER by Date-field

and get it all in one spool file.


That statement is not syntactically correct, not even for COBOL ;-)

But more problematic is the [possible lack of, or quite likely undesirable] collation [per either lack of, or illogical, ORDER BY], depending on how the statement is redacted to get past the issue with the syntax.


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