I'm working on an assignment and I've sort of hit a wall. I'm going to make the question very generic as I'm mainly looking for some tips and a shove in the right direction. I am to take two input files who's records are in no particular sequence, sort both of them into one output file while excluding certain entries. So far I've figured out that I need to code the sort statements like:
SORT ORDERS-FILE-SORT ON ASCENDING REQUEST-DATE-S ASCENDING CUST-NUMBER-S ASCENDING CUST-ORDER-NUMBER-S ASCENDING PART-NUMBER-S USING INPUT PROCEDURE 200-SORT-AND-MERGE GIVING ORDERS-OUT I haven't figured out what to code in the input procedure.
P.S. There is one other thing I haven't figured out. This is kind of a side notE and I don't want anything specific with this particular question, just a tip. We're supposed to exclude records with a REQUEST-DATE that is not within 6 months. At first I was thinking it was as simple as:
01 WS-DATE 05 RUN-YEAR PIC 99. 05 RUN-MONTH PIC 99. 05 RUN-DAY PIC 99.300-TEST-DATE ADD 6 TO RUN-MONTH IF REQUEST-DATE > WS-DATEHowever in the event that adding 6 to the month causes it to go over 12 this will not work. I've been getting a headache over this one. Thanks for any help I will really appreciate it.