New to icetools and struggling with the sort

zaphany · New User Joined: 16 May 2006 Posts: 11

Dear all, I am new to icetools and struggling with the sort of the following, please help!

File 1 :
field1 pic9(9)
field2 pic9(8)

12345678933333333
12345678988888888
12345678999999999
23456788811111111
34567890133464646

File 2 :
field1 pic9(9)
field2 pic9(10)
0101010101313131313
1234567891313131311
1234567893313113131
3456789011213311111

Expected result
Try to merge File1 & File 2 based on File 1 if field1 matches
123456789333333331313131311
123456789333333333313113131
123456789888888881313131311
123456789888888883313113131
123456789999999991313131311
123456789999999993313113131
345678901334646461213311111

Thanks in advance

rajandhla · Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 1:56 pm

Hi,

Please find the link for the one you are looking

www-03.ibm.com/servers/storage/support/software/sort/mvs/tricks/srtmst02.html#t3a

regards
jai

zaphany · New User Joined: 16 May 2006 Posts: 11

Thanks Jai, i did read this example and tried, but the case I am facing is that field1 in both files can appear more than once and I am trying to get all the combinations...
please help...

Frank Yaeger · Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 8:12 pm

zaphany,

You're trying to do a cartesian join. SPLICE can't do that.

zaphany · New User Joined: 16 May 2006 Posts: 11

Thanks Frank! looks like i need to write programs for that...

Frank Yaeger · Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 4:28 am

With z/OS DFSORT V1R5 PTF UK51706 or z/OS DFSORT V1R10 PTF UK51707 (Nov, 2009), you can now do a Cartesian join with JOINKEYS. For your example, you could use a DFSORT job like this: