RE: Sorting

["Metz, Zak" <Zak_Metz@xxxxxx>]

There I go mixing up DDS LFs with SQL views...but they look the same
when I WRKOBJ! Yeah, it is indeed a "flat" file. So that pretty much
eliminates SQL, except if I can deal with duplicating all the data to a
second file, in which case I can do all the substringing I need. OPNQRYF
is starting to look better, and yeah, my only problem with that is
getting all the quotes straight, but I've managed before. QMQRY seems to
have the advantage of being able to write over the same PF, as does the
QLGSORT API, the most recent suggestion from Tom.

Thanks for helping me hash this out, Eric.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: DeLong, Eric
> 
> Uh, I don't think a view will work for the KEYFILE part.... 
> That parm refers
> to the access path to for the reordering of the PF data.  A 
> view by itself
> has no access path, and I don't think SQL allows you to use 
> derived fields
> as indexes..... :(
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