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reachcyrus
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What happens if we try to sort an empty file ?
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William Thompson
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| reachcyrus wrote: |
What happens if we try to sort an empty file ?
cheers!! |
Kidding? Serious?
The file will get sorted and written to the output file in the correct sequence....
Why do you think anything else will happen? |
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Anuj Dhawan
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Hi,
If file is with proper EOF marker, SMS managed QSAM file, SORT will give an empty file in output. |
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reachcyrus
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| How to check EOF marker ?? |
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CICS Guy
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| reachcyrus wrote: |
| How to check EOF marker ?? |
If the file got opened for output, there is an "EOF marker".
DITTO? |
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Frank Yaeger
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| What happens if we try to sort an empty file ? |
You'll get an empty output file. |
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
When you read this empty file into your program, your program will raise the "AT END" condition on the first read. Your program needs to consider that there may be zero input records and handle this accordingly.
You don't code to check for "an EOF marker". |
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