dfsort symnames in plisrta

[johann woeckinger]

Hi,
I have to confess that i wasn't aware of dfsort's symnames.
What an elegant way to specify sort criteria!
"departement,A,birthday,D" is so much more readable than "7,3,PD,A,13,10,CH,D".
I was not able to find out, if there's a similar way to specify sort criteria in plisrta?
Thanks, br Johann

[John W Kennedy]

On most systems, PLISRTA /is/ DFSORT. Have you tried simply adding a
SYMNAMES DD to your JCL?

--
John W. Kennedy
"The blind rulers of Logres
Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."
-- Charles Williams. "Taliessin through Logres: Prelude"

[johann woeckinger]

Wow, this works indeed.
Specify a SYMNAMES DD and use the symbols in code.
Many thanks John!

[johann woeckinger]

On Monday, March 8, 2021 at 7:27:01 PM UTC+1, johann woeckinger wrote:
> Wow, this works indeed.
> Specify a SYMNAMES DD and use the symbols in code.

But fiddling around with it i found that i don't like the idea: the pgm gets dependent on a completely separate dataset which i want to avoid in most cases.
Anyway, it was an interesting experiment,
br Johann

[Peter Flass]

Create the dataset in the program and dynnalloc the symnames dd before
invoking the sort,

--
Pete

[johann woeckinger]

> > But fiddling around with it i found that i don't like the idea: the pgm
> > gets dependent on a completely separate dataset which i want to avoid in most cases.
> > Anyway, it was an interesting experiment,
> > br Johann
> >
> Create the dataset in the program and dynnalloc the symnames dd before
> invoking the sort,
>
> --
> Pete

Thanks for the idea!
That came into my mind too, but before i give this a try, i'll play around with some offset(..) and size(..). And the preprocessor :-D.
br Johann