This may be more work than it worth, but have you considered converting the hex values to decimal, sort the decimal values and then convert them back to hex.
HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of DanD Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 9:40 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Can I do a Hex Sort in ISPF Edit? Not quite Steve. 000A 000F 0001 001A 0010 The above are in sorted order as you specified. I believe the original poster would like 0001 before 000A. DanD ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Comstock" <[email protected]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 12:29 PM Subject: Re: Can I do a Hex Sort in ISPF Edit? > Darth Keller wrote: >> A co-work has a list of 4 digit UCB's - hexidecimal values - and want's >> to sort it as hex-values. It wouldn't be too hard to code up an edit >> macro to perform the function, but I don't want to re-invent the wheel >> and thought I'd check to see if I'm missing something that already >> exists. Any one know of such a beast? >> darth > > I don't see the problem. Get into edit of the file, and issue > > ==> sort col1 col2 {A|D} > > where "col1" indicates the first byte of your UCB value > and "col2" indicates the last byte; who cares if they're > hex? Should work as is; ISPF will treat them as unexamined > data and sort by the content. > > > > Kind regards, > > -Steve Comstock > The Trainer's Friend, Inc. > > 303-393-8716 > http://www.trainersfriend.com > > z/OS Application development made easier > * Our classes include > + How things work > + Programming examples with realistic applications > + Starter / skeleton code > + Complete working programs > + Useful utilities and subroutines > + Tips and techniques > > ==> Check out the Trainer's Friend Store to purchase z/OS <== > ==> application developer toolkits. Sample code in four <== > ==> programming languages, JCL to Assemble or compile, <== > ==> bind and test. <== > ==> http://www.trainersfriend.com/TTFStore/index.html <== > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
