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it worked.. i want to sort the detail records before writing it to the output file.. How could this be acheived?
Instead of putting SORT FIELDS=COPY , can i use SORT FIELDS=(1,3,CH,A)? if i input this which operation will get executed first? will it remove the header records and then sort the file ? Please advise?
