Packed decimal and zoned decimal in DFSORT

rajrohith · New User Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Posts: 54 Location: chennai

I want to know how to code the field of packed decimal and zoned decimal in sort

for example

name x(10)
salary s9(8) comp-3
amount s9(4) comp

I want to sort salary and amount
how to specify in sort card
do I have to specify like sortfield(11,8.pd.a,19.4.zd,a) isit correct or not
i want to know how to specify the field in sort card

Frank Yaeger · Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 10:15 pm

See the following for an explanation of how COBOL formats relate to DFSORT formats:

publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/ICE1CA20/C.3?DT=20060615185603

In your case:

o the salary field of s9(8) comp-3 corresponds to 11,5,PD.
o the amount field of s9(4) comp corresponds to 16,2,FI (ZD would not have comp).

So your SORT statement would be:

rajrohith · New User Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Posts: 54 Location: chennai

thanks frank
i know this is a chilly doubt
because iam new in sort