And, in my eyes, LISTFILE's BEFORE and AFTER options have a bug. If there
is no file for the given date range, COMMAND LISTFILE sends an error
message in the PIPE. Normally eror messages should not be produced when a
CMS command is started with the COMMAND stage.
Kris Buelens,
--- freelance z/VM consultant, Belgium ---
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2014-06-27 17:18 GMT+02:00 Rob van der Heij <rvdh...@gmail.com>:
> :-) I only recently noticed it, probably after Kris pointed it out (my
> Linux friends groan when I refer to 1983 as 'recently')
>
> But obviously knowing the "pick" stage is much more useful than remember
> this particular option for one CMS command. Once you know "pick" and
> "dateconvert" you can also find any EXEC's written on a Monday ;-) Or in
> the weekend...
>
>
> On 27 June 2014 17:03, Ivica Brodaric <ivica.broda...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Huh? Beaten by seconds! And didn't even think of AFTER... I feel
> eliminated
> > like Croatia form the World Cup... And we didn't even play with the Dutch
> > masters :-)
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 2:50 AM, Gentry, Steve <
> > steve.gen...@westernsouthernlife.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Well, uhm, AFTER would be cheating (and will work in this case,
> thanks.)
> > > What happened to "work harder not smarter" (from a Dilbert cartoon).
> > > . . . and . . .
> > > Brute force and awkwardness (college professor).
> > > Sincerely, thanks,
> > > Steve
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: CMSTSO Pipelines Discussion List [mailto:
> > CMS-PIPELINES@VM.MARIST.EDU]
> > > On Behalf Of Rob van der Heij
> > > Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 10:44 AM
> > > To: CMS-PIPELINES@VM.MARIST.EDU
> > > Subject: Re: need a SPECS guru
> > >
> > > You seem to be looking for PICK - eg pick w8 >> ,20140225,
> > >
> > > The classic approach would be to inject a dummy record in the stream,
> > sort
> > > on date, and ignore all records before the dummy.
> > >
> > > PS It would be cheating to remind you of the AFTER option on LISTFILE
> ;-)
> > >
> > >
> > > On 27 June 2014 16:14, Gentry, Steve <
> > steve.gen...@westernsouthernlife.com
> > > >
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > In a CMS environment, I have a list of files, created by LISTFILE.
> > > > The format of the file_type, in this list, will be DATE('S')
> yyyymmdd
> > > > I want to take a predetermined date, already in DATE('S') format, and
> > > > compare it to the above mentioned file_type. If the file type date
> is
> > > > less than or equal to the predetermined date I want to ignore it.
> Or
> > > > if the file type date is greater than the predetermined date, I want
> to
> > > pass it on
> > > > to the next stage. I was hoping for a PIPE stage that would do this
> > > type
> > > > of logical compare but I didn't find one, or at least one with an
> > > > obvious name/function. If there is a stage, please let me know.
> > > > However, if there isn't a stage to do this, I think I'll have to do
> > this
> > > with a SPEC stage.
> > > > While I've gotten better at writing pipe code, the SPEC stage is
> > > > still a challenge for me and hence the need for a SPECS guru.
> > > > Could someone help with this SPECs stage?
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Steve
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
