Adding sorts to CLASS, SUBCLASS and CATEGORY by CATALOG will work, but it will
also affect any application that accesses the data.  If this is not a problem
for the applications, it should give you what you want.  Otherwise, copying the
data the a KSAM file with appropriate keys would also give you what you want,
although not quite as pretty. I'm assuming that CATALOG only occurs once per key
and doesn't require sorting. If that is not the case, I don't see how you can
sort it without something like Omnidex available or using a KSAM file, since
IMAGE isn't designed to sort an entire data set.

bill grefe wrote:

> I have an image data set(see below). I would like to have this data returned
> from image sorted by
> Catalogue-number regardless of the search path used to find the data.  The
> programs that use this
> Data set are supplied by a third party and I have no access to them.
> Can I a) add a sort path with adager to catalogue-number (without breaking
> anything) or
>           b) sort the data with adager periodically (I used to do this with
> DBMGR reload along time ago
> but I think they "enhanced" reload so the order of the non sorted search
> paths weren't changed).
>
> SET NAME:
>    BROWSE-DETAIL,DETAIL
>
>       ITEMS:
>          CATALOGUE-NUMBER,     U20           <<SEARCH ITEM>>
>          CLASS,                U6            <<SEARCH ITEM>>
>          SUBCLASS,             U6            <<SEARCH ITEM>>
>          CATEGORY,             U10           <<SEARCH ITEM>>
>          TYPE,                 U4
>
>       CAPACITY: 8320            ENTRIES: 8198
>
> Thanks,
>
> William Grefe
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> PCI-WEDECO Environmental Technologies, Inc.
> phone: 973-575-7052
> fax: 973-575-8941

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