A programmer came by with a question. He asked if, when you are reading a VSAM KSDS via an alternate index (PATH), to have duplicates returned in base key order. I don't think that is possible. From examining the contents of the AIX records themselves, it appears to me that the base key for a "new" base record with a given alternate key is just placed at the end of the keys. Yes, I know, if this sort of thing is a requirement, we need Db2 (or is it DB2), but that is _never_ going to happen around here.
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