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

Subject: Re: Would it be a reasonable to ask IBM's programmers to, write a %sortsfl(sfl: column)
From: Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:43:53 -0600
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Sorry, but... isn't this a matter of adding the subfile records to an array and run the SORTA opcode to sort the array?

Would that really be any harder than putting it in a "Tree" or "Map" object?!

john e wrote:

Thanks for the info.

Like exceptions, it's supported by the OS, which is great, but not RPG, which is an abomination.

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