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[govardhan]

Hi,

Can I add 2 field values which are in different positions in a file using SORT utility.

For eg:
COnsider the following COBOL declaration

Input File
01 TEST-IN.
05 NUMBER PIC X(6).
05 FULL-TIME-AMT PIC S9(7)V2 COMP-3.
05 PART-TIME-AMT PIC S9(7)V2 COMP-3.

Output File.
01 TEST-OUT.
05 NUMBER PIC X(6).
05 TOTAL-AMT PIC S9(7)V2 COMP-3.

So, I want to add FULL-TIME-AMT and PART-TIME-AMT and get the output in to the field TOTAL-AMT, by using SORT utility.

Thanks in advance
Govardhan

[Frank Yaeger]

You can use DFSORT's arithmeric operations to do this as follows: