Mike Walter wrote:
Forewarning: I have no knowledge of LINMON package details. There
may/must be better ways of doing this, but this may help.
Isn't there a sufficient date/timestamp already on each generated record
that could be used to sort them before CP3KVMXT processing?
Yepper, there's a date field and I've tried sorting by that, but
CP3KVMXT specifically look for a record beginning with '000087'x as the
first record. Of course, I just had to comment out that check and give
it a try, but it causes a specification exception. :-)
If not, would it be possible in your case to modify the LINMON package or
the MSUX EXEC (exit) to write a prefix at the start of each record before
it is written to disk. That prefix could be the yyyymmddhhmmssnnnnnnnnnn
where yymmddhhmmss is the time that this process "prefix" began, and the
'nnn's are a sequence number (easily generated with a PIPEs "SPECS"
stage). When you are ready to run them into CP3KVMXT, first sort on that
prefix, and stripping it before re-writing them all as one large file. But
that seems to defeat the purpose of writing the file in smaller pieces,
no?
Unfortunately, the files in question have already been created. I can
fix the out-of-order issue for future collections, but I was hoping to
be able to feed CP3KVMXT a particularly nasty day we had recently.
Leland
