Tom Marchant wrote on 09/09/2006 02:52:16 PM: >>That won't work if the EQUALS function is needed. >> >You lost me with that one, Frank. I don't see how anything is lost if you >sort a 5 digit packed decimal as a 3 byte binary as opposed to a 2 and a >half byte binary.
The EQUALS functions says you want records with equally collating keys to be sorted in their original order. So if your input is: R1 X'1D' R2 X'1C' R3 X'1D' R4 X'1C' with EQUALS you want the output to be: R1 X'1D' R2 X'1C' R3 X'1D' R4 X'1C' With p,0.4,BI,A, that's what you'll get because the "sign" is ignored. But with p,1,CH,A or p,1,BI,A, you'll get: R2 X'1C' R4 X'1C' R1 X'1D' R3 X'1D' because the "sign" isn't ignored. Of course, if the second order is acceptable, then it doesn't matter. Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Team (IBM) Specialties: PARSE, JFY, SQZ, ICETOOL, IFTHEN, OVERLAY, Symbols, Migration => DFSORT/MVS is on the Web at http://www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
