Can I rearrange the order of the character strings, from alphabet to numbers?
Alphabets precede numbers by specifying the EBCDIC key format in the key field. Use "ebc" as the key format.
[Example] 0.10ebca
How can I make the last 2 digits "00" come after "99" as a countermeasure for the Y2K problem?
Specify a 2 digit years data format (yyc, yyz or yyd) as the key format in the key field. Based on this data format, the data is sorted as follows: 1960,1961,...,2059. Threshold can be changed by the environment variable "BSORT_TOPYY= yy" (The default value is BSORT_TOPYY=60).
In the default value, the maximum value is 59 and minimum value is 60.
[Example of the key field specification] 10.2yyca
While sorting data the records that met certain conditions, can I output the records by adding specific character strings?
It is possible if you use the record selection option and the record reconstruction option. Specify the record condition to add the character strings by using the record selection option. Then, specify the character strings that are to be added to the selected record in the record reconstruction option.
Can I specify the record to which the result of the record summation will be output?
In bsort command, it is not possible to specify records to which the result of the record summation option or the suppression option is output.
In bsortex command, it is possible to specify records to which the result of the record summation option or the suppression option is output by the first operand or the last operand.
It is not possible to specify records to which the result of the record summation option or the suppression option is output.
Can I extract specific input records without sorting?
The record selection option can be used as the copy option. However, specify a different file for output from that for input.
