Re: Sorta on more than one field -- RPG400-L

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An RFE could be submitted - personally, I'd weigh in against it, since there is a very simple workaround using qsort. Is it worth having IBM use resources on this when there are bigger fish to fry?

JMHO!

Vern

On 12/10/2019 8:13 AM, Gad Miron wrote:

Just a (fleeting) thought...

Any point in creating RFE for sorting on several keys ?

Gad

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date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 07:27:06 -0600
from: Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Sorta on more than one field

Well that would give you name in manager, which wasn't what was wanted.
However the important thing is that no matter what you do SORTA can't do a
multi-key sort - only a single key. Sometimes you can control the data by
arranging it is a DS in the right order that you get the effect - but the
same DS cannot be used for (say) name in manager.

The point I was trying to make was that if you want a DS array sorted on
any arbitrary key combination the only utility answer is qsort().

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