Re: FMTDTA

["Booth Martin" <Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

FMTDTA reads data from an existing file and writes it to a new file.  The
data may be sorted in a variety of ways and some or all fields may be
written to the new file.  
 
 The sorting order and field selections are all specified in a script file. 
The sort specs are not in the SRCPF for the file itself, but rather in a
FMTSRC file.  It wouldn't be useful for you to see a lot of the details here
 but in general the script file is written as FMTSRC and has specific
columns for specific functions.   Column 6 determines the kind of
specification line,  just as you are used to with RPG.
 
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/pubs/html/as400/online/v4r5eng.htm  
 
from there, search for all books containing  "Sort"
 
(Only one will show up.  It has the details and several examples.)
 
 
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Booth Martin   http://www.MartinVT.com
Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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-------Original Message-------
 
From: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Date: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 00:00:32
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: FMTDTA
 
Hi all,
Can any body let me know "What FMTDTA command does" . I understand that it
processes series of sort spec stored in the SRCPF.
What does series of sort specs mean. Can you illustrate with an example
 
TIA
Vjiayendra