CA made an end-of-life announced on 23 July 2010 for CA-Sort for z/OS (not with SRAM). Support ends 30 January 2012.
Scott Barry SBBWorks, Inc. On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 04:38:15 -0600, John McKown <joa...@swbell.net> wrote: >CA-SORT is still available. I don't think there are many external users. >CA may use it internally in some of their products to be independent of >the differences in DFSORT vs. SyncSort. > >On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 21:00 -0800, Ed Gould wrote: >> Charles: >> >> I worded that poorly and agree with you. >> ALthough outside of report writers I can' think of any other reasons >> for needing them. But again why not have them freely available for >> all? >> There are no secrets to be gained from the records as each >> installation (at least in the case of ACF2) write rules for dataset >> usage so indeed the information seems limited to the installation to >> understand and interpret them. >> >> The only possible information to be gained is possibly sort SMF >> records and that if you are attempting to write your own sort. With >> DFSORT and SYNCSORT are the only two sorts available there used to be >> another one but have not heard anything out of them in probably 20+ >> years (maybe more). >> >> Ed >> > >-- >John McKown >Maranatha! <>< > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
