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[sateesh_gontla]

Hi,

I have 3 fields defined in a table using occurs clause and I will move the data into that table and while reading that table using arrays I would like to retrieve the unique rows from the table. This requirement is to be coded in the COBOl only otherwise I would have used sysncsort.

I have the data like this :

Field-1 Field-2 Field-3
===== ========= ==========
Life 04/04/2001 07/31/2005
Life 09/16/1997 03/31/2005
Life 04/04/2001 07/31/2005
Life 09/16/1997 03/31/2005
Life 11/02/2003 12/31/9999
Life 11/02/2003 12/31/9999
Life 04/04/2001 07/31/2005
Life 11/02/2003 12/31/9999

Output should be like this :

Life 09/16/1997 03/31/2005
Life 04/04/2001 07/31/2005
Life 11/02/2003 12/31/9999

Thanks,
Sateesh

[kolusu]

sateesh_gontla,

Check the solution posted by me in this link. Customize it according to your needs.

http://www.mvsforums.com/helpboards/viewtopic.php?t=1718&highlight=search

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[sateesh_gontla]

Hi Kolusu,

Thx a lot for great help.

Is there any other way to do, Imean any built in option to select the unique records? Why because like this I have another 3 to 4 types of columns where I need to do the same process. The performance of the program is too bad if I am using SEARCH option.

Thanks,
Sateesh