SORT, E35 exit.  Don't even use an AIX/PATH, as it would probably just
slow it down.

sas

On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 4:35 PM, John McKown
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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>
> Maranatha! <><
> John McKown
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