Q & A

I-QU Plus-1: Partial Word Count

Question

I created a file with an I-QU PLUS-1 program [would also apply to Q-LINK] and after sorting the data with @SORT, I discovered that the last word, or partial word, was being truncated. It appears that I-QU PLUS-1 does not write the "partial word count" to the record as in COBOL. Can you supply a fix?

Answer

Unisys made a change to SORT 21R1 that considers a missing "partial word count" to be zero and truncates the data. They have since reconsidered that action (for reasons of backward compatibility) and issued PLE 17791354 and PCR 00201-01540-PCR.