On Fri, 3 Oct 2025 20:03:12 +0000, Billy Ashton wrote: >I am looking at doing that right now, but since I generate up to 1mill >records for some runs of this, it now means creating two of those files, >even though one is only temporary...I will see what it does to my >performance. > ... Feels like a case for a pipe.
>------ Original Message ------ >From "S.Karthik Premnath" >Date 10/3/2025 3:56:45 PM > >>Just guessing, If on the fly not possible, why not output the data into a >>temp file and make another pass where the seqnum can be treated as any >>normal integer ? >>> ------ Original Message ------ >>> From "Billy Ashton" >>> Date 10/3/2025 12:16:13 PM >>> >>> >Now, though I want to take that first field, and make it a 9-s >>> >complement instead of the SEQNUM value. Can anyone tell me if there is >>> >a way to translate from 0123456789 to 9876543210, or to subtract the >>> >SEQNUM from 999999999? DFSORT does not allow incrementing by negative >>> >value for SEQNUM. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
