Re: Sequence of WRKSPLF output?

[Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe printer file order first A-Z.

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Dennis Lovelady <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi, Folks:
>
>
>
> We have a WRKSPLF workalike-plus-extras program, and it has been serving
> our
> needs fairly well.  We found, though, that the output sequence of the
> in-house command does not match the sequence  presented in the IBM version.
> Further, the sequence presented in the IBM version doesn't match the result
> of QUSLSPL for any particular user.
>
>
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> We've known for years that SAV/HLD are shown last, and we thought that
> within that list the files were presented in priority sequence and then in
> opened sequence (Created date/time).  But when we do (IBM's) WRKSPLF
> username OUTPUT(*PRINT) we are unable to determine the sort order (this is
> on a V5R3 system).
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> http://code.midrange.com/1e37238551.html shows the point of question.
>  This
> is extracted from page 1 of WRKSPLF output for a certain user.  Notice the
> create date/time of the last entry.  I was tempted to think job number/name
> may come into play here, but one can see that there are two entries for
> each
> of two jobs, and the order is JOB1 JOB2 JOB2 JOB1.
>
>
>
> So have any of you landed on an exact sort order that's used by this
> command?  Have any of you any idea why that output's sequence would be
> different from QUSLSPL output?
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>
> Dennis E. Lovelady
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