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DDS ASCII Sort Seq

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JHL

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Oct 5, 2012, 10:13:32 PM10/5/12
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Is there a statement for a DDS to set record order to ASCII and not EBCDIC?
TIA

Dr.Ugo Gagliardelli

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Oct 6, 2012, 4:31:03 AM10/6/12
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Il 06/10/2012 4.13, JHL ha scritto:
> Is there a statement for a DDS to set record order to ASCII and not EBCDIC?
> TIA
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Using dds keyword ALTSEQ(QASCII). Even if QASCII is a translate table,
using it as a sort sequence table you'll obtain tha ascii order, first
numbers then upper case and lower case. Then special characters will not
have the same order as in ebcdic character set.
ALTSEQ is a file level keyword, in other word all fields specified as
keys are affected, unless you specify NOALTSEQ keyword for K fields that
should not.
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