Re: Would it be a reasonable to ask IBM's programmers to write a %sortsfl(sfl: column) ?

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've always wondered why they didn't do that a long time ago.

However, I think a BIF is the wrong place for this.  It should be a DDS 
keyword.  It doesn't belong in RPG, it belongs in DDS as an attribute of 
the subfile itself.  (And therefore available in all languages that use 
DDS subfiles.)

This should've been done 20 years ago.  Now it seems almost too late!  I 
mean, does it pay to put money into green-screen interfaces today?


Booth Martin wrote:
> Would it be a reasonable to ask IBM's programmers to write a 
> %sortsfl(sfl: column) for load-all subfiles?
>
> On the face of it, it seems like this would be both an easy and a nice 
> addition to the %bif catalog.