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sancraig16
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Joined: 27 Mar 2018
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Location: usa
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Hi ,
Trying to SORT a file with input as given below
SORT :
SORT FIELDS=(1,2,ZD,A)
Input :
18
6
15
31
27
6
37
38
23
28
35
33
15
26
38
38
37
38
37
Output:
15
15
18
23
26
27
28
31
33
35
37
37
37
38
38
38
38
6
6
The output is incorrect with 2 rows of 6 at the bottom. The trailing spaces is obviously causing the issue for these records . Any way to overcome this? |
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vasanthz
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Try this,
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INREC OVERLAY=(1:1,2,JFY=(SHIFT=RIGHT))
SORT FIELDS=(1,2,ZD,A) |
You will get leading zeros though in the output |
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sergeyken
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| vasanthz wrote: |
| You will get leading zeros though in the output |
Not leading ZEROES, but leading BLANKS.
Blanks would cause sorting format ZD to fail; SORT FIELDS=(1,2,CH,A) is more robust. |
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sancraig16
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| I did get leading BLANKS and SORT worked. As suggested , I will change the format to CH. |
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sergeyken
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| sancraig16 wrote: |
| I did get leading BLANKS and SORT worked. As suggested , I will change the format to CH. |
If SORT FIELDS=(...,ZD,...) did not fail with some blanks in the field, that means the sort utility code performed extra check on ZD field before handling it in decimal manner. At the level of machine instructions it might fail with decimal ABEND like S0C7.
SORT FIELDS=(...,CH,...) deals in the same manner as ZD, but CH is also irrelevant to not fully correct ZD values.
This is known as more robust code. |
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Arun Raj
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sancraig16,
You might be able to achieve this without altering the input data by using the UFF format:
UNTESTED:
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| SORT FIELDS=(1,2,UFF,A) |
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Rohit Umarjikar
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| UFF will work but if you have -ve values also then UFF won't work you will then need SFF. |
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Arun Raj
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| The OPs representative sample does not show any negative symbols in it, so I would leave it to the OP's discretion. |
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