In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 09/14/2007 at 11:38 AM, Lizette Koehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Okay, I have a list of UCB ranges. I doubt it; I'm sure that what you have is a list of device numbers. UCB is Unit Control Block. >I need to take the string and clump them back together. Convert them to binary, sort, merge the ranges and convert them back. >I am thinking a REXX might be the best process with a sort, I'd probably use HLA or PL/I, but REXX is certainly suitable and includes subroutines to do your base conversions. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html