RE: Sub Files.

If it is a big file. This may be not a good way.


>From: "Hatzenbeler, Tim" <thatzenbeler@clinitech.net>
>Reply-To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
>To: "'RPG400-L@midrange.com'" <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
>Subject: RE: Sub Files.
>Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 11:57:08 -0800
>
>Another was is to create a Qtemp/DataQue with a key, and load and unload 
>the
>que the way you want it sorted...
>tim
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:       Peter Dow [SMTP:pcdow@yahoo.com]
> > Sent:       Friday, December 10, 1999 11:28 AM
> > To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> > Subject:    Re: Sub Files.
> >
> > You might want to do the same thing that IBM does on the WRKACTJOB where
> > you
> > can position the cursor on a column and press F16 to sort by that 
>column,
> > *without* reloading the subfile. Another example would be a subfile with 
>a
> > name and a date, you load it initially sorted by name, then allow the 
>user
> > to choose to have it sorted by date instead.
> >
> > I don't know of any API that will sort a subfile. I can think of two
> > solutions: 1) reload the subfile in the desired sequence; or 2) read the
> > subfile into a multi-occurrence data structure, then use the QLGSORT API
> > (described in "AS/400e series: System API Reference OS/400 National
> > Language
> > Support APIs", SC41-5863-01) to sort it, then reload the subfile from 
>the
> > MODS.
> >
> > HTH
> > Peter Dow
> > Dow Software Services, Inc.
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> >
> > From: Alan Campin <Alan.Campin@CaseLogic.com>
> > > No, but why would you want to? The sort is based on the input path 
>from
> > the
> > > data loaded. At least, that is how I always do it.
> >
> > > From: namal serasinghe [mailto:serasinghe@hotmail.com]
> > > Is there any API to sort the Sub-files. Please let me know.
> >
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