I have two questions here. 1. How to read a flat file in reverse order? 2. How

I have two questions here. 1. How to read a flat file in
reverse order? 2. How to read a VSAM KSDS file in reverse
order? In both the cases we donot know the total number of
records.

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I have two questions here. 1. How to read a flat file in reverse order? 2. How to read a VSAM KSDS..

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add a sequence number at end of records and then sort in
descending order.

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