Re: TEXT file doubt

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, this question makes me want to rant - against IBM. In looking for the 
Sort user's Guide, I see that there is not any reference to PDM in the main 
InfoCenter site for V5R2. Are you kidding, IBM? If you search on FMTDTA, 
all you get are references to distributed data management.

At any rate, what you want is the Sort user's Guide (Who would know who's 
not been around this machine very long? - Oy!) to get to it (the link is 
below) means going to InfoCenter, to iSeries supplemental manuals. This 
takes you to a different window. There you need to go to the V5R1 PDFs 
link, where you can find the Sort manual, as well as the PDM guide.

The link is 
<http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r1/ic2924/books/c0918260.pdf>. I 
think you'd be best served by digging through that, as you have done with 
other stuff. I can't help, as I've never actually used FMTDTA.

What's really stupid, in my mind, is that the Application Development 
Manager manuals are still directly available in InfoCenter - and these have 
been officially terminated, right?

Egad!

HTH

Vern

At 05:20 AM 2/24/2004 -0800, you wrote:
> Good Morning friends,
>
> I have the following command in my CL
>
> FMTDTA     INFILE((&FLIB/YCP05305)) +
>
>              OUTFILE(&FLIB/YWKCP53T) +
>
>              SRCFILE(YGSC/QDDSSRC) SRCMBR(YCP05310S) +
>              OPTION(*NOPRT)
>
>
> I know that some sorting is going on the infile
> YCP05305  and producing the outfile YWKCP53T
> based on the selection criteria written in the text
> file YCP05310S.
> when i saw this text file YCP05310S, i could see
> following
>  HSORTR    24A        3X  83 N N
>  I
>  FNC  10  17                       ACCOUNT
>  FNC   4   5                       EXCH
>  FNC   2   3                       FC
>  FNC  25  26                       YEAR
>  FNC  23  24                       MONTH
>  FNC  58  58                       P/C
>  FNC  39  43                       STRIKE
>  FNC  76  77                       PROMPT DAY
>  FDC   1  83
> Can anyone let me know how the selection criteria is
> happening here in the above text file(what is this
> code doing), I could not understand. Also I have seen
> some folks suggesting some time back some manual on
> this textfiles to read.
> I request you post it again  , Thanks so much for your
> help! If more info is required plz ask me.