Huh. DFSORT is doing exactly what it's supposed to do. INCLUDE COND=(1,6,CH,GE,C'SMITH ',AND,1,6,CH,LE,C'SMYTHE')
'SMITH' is equal to 'SMITH' and less than 'SMYTHE' (I<Y'), so the record is included. 'SMO99Y' is greater than 'SMITH' (O>I) and less than 'SMYTHE' (O<Y), so the record is included. 'SMO#$' is greater than 'SMITH' (O>I) and less than 'SMYTHE' (O<Y), so the record is included.. 'SMYTHE' is greater than 'SMITH' (Y>I) and eqaul to 'SMYTHE', so the record is included. 'SMILEY' is less than 'SMITH' (L<T), so the record is omitted. So what do you see as the "problem" in the logic here? Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Development Team (IBM) - yae...@us.ibm.com Specialties: JOINKEYS, FINDREP, WHEN=GROUP, ICETOOL, Symbols, Migration => DFSORT/MVS is on the Web at http://www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort/ Zaromil Tisler on IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu> wrote on 05/26/2010 05:12:09 AM: > >> >Visualize it with these parameters: > >> > >> >INCLUDE COND=(1,6,CH,GE,C'SMITH ',AND,1,6,CH,LE,C'SMYTHE') > >> > > >> >Show how, e.g., c'SMILEY' in positions 1 through 6 would qualify for > >> >Inclusion in the output. > >> > >> SMILEY would fail because every character is the same until you hit > >the L but what about SMO99Y where > >> you wanted every position in the field to be alphabetic? > > > >As specified, the second ("upper") bound is (1,6,CH,LE,C'SMYTHE'), so > >"do the comparisons": > > > >First character 'S' is less or equal to 'S', so it "qualifies; > >Second character 'M' is less or equal to 'M', so it "qualifies"; > >Third character 'O' is less or equal to 'Y', so it "qualifies"; > >Fourth character '9' is NOT less or equal to 'T', so the entire value > >c'SMO99Y' is "disqualified". > > > > -jc- > > > Looks like DFSORT uses some other logic :) > > > - CONTROL STATEMENTS FOR 5694-A01, Z/OS DFSORT V1R10 - 13:54 ON WED MAY 26, > 2010 - > OPTION COPY > INCLUDE COND=(1,6,CH,GE,C'SMITH ',AND,1,6,CH,LE,C'SMYTHE') > > ICE055I 0 INSERT 0, DELETE 0 > ICE054I 0 RECORDS - IN: 4, OUT: 4 > > > SORTOUT contains following records, the same as SORTIN: > > SMITH > SMO99Y > SMO#$! > SMYTHE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
