Hello Bob,
many thanks for your post and cooperative willingness.
Well, I too use rexx frequently, mostly for individual or specific purposes.
I finally found for my need an approach with SORT as SORT - on the one hand - offers a really convincing performance and is - on the other hand - quite challenging when it comes to coding more sophisticated functionality like joining records (especially from a TSSCFILE :-) ). I thought my need (create a "flatfile of TSS-Acids") is nothing special and could already have been dealt by someone else.
Such flatfiles are very helpful, when you want to sort or select the acids by criteria, which TSS LIST does not support.
Kind regards,
Josef
Original Message:
Sent: 11-19-2019 01:27 PM
From: Robert Bridges
Subject: Using SORT for TSSCFILE output
Sorry for the delay, Josef. I haven't stopped by the forum since it moved to Broadcom, and I had to reregister as a result.
I read the CFILE pretty often. For the purpose I use REXX to extract the fields I want, then write them out one record per ACID and sort them. I have a sort of REXX skeleton that I use whenever I want to read the CFILE, so I don't have to write the logic from scratch. I also have a REXX routine for sorting the contents of the stack, so it doesn't have to be a separate step.
By now I expect it's too late and you've figured it out yourself, but let me know if you want details.
Original Message:
Sent: 08-02-2019 10:22 AM
From: Josef Thaler
Subject: Using SORT for TSSCFILE output
Hello Community,
has anybody a hint or link to, or samples to use SORT to efficiently process TSSCFILE / TSSCFBK output ?
I particular I'd be interested to create a flat file with Acid, Name, Type, Dept, Divison and Zone, one line per Acid.
Thanks,
Josef