Martin Packer on IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu> wrote on 08/31/2011 07:31:23 AM: > DFSORT can process VBS. Whether it goes to 32767 or not I'll leave to > Frank to clear up. > > A useful technique I've found in the past is to make DFSORT do my I/O to > SMF and use an exit to pick up the records in a buffer.
Yes, DFSORT can process data sets with RECFM=VBS and LRECL=32767 and pass the complete record to the exit. The SPANINC option can be used to tell DFSORT what to do if it encounters an incomplete spanned record. Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Development Team (IBM) - yae...@us.ibm.com Specialties: JOINKEYS, FINDREP, WHEN=GROUP, ICETOOL, Symbols, Migration => DFSORT/MVS is on the Web at http://www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
