On Wednesday 31 January 2007 11:17, Carl Edwards wrote: > I have recently migrated a small VSE system to Z/os. > evrything went well with one exception. > The VSE Sort program was able to sort a variety of files, mixed SAM > and VSAM in one pass. This is not supported in Z/OS (DFSORT). > I can write an E15 exit to handle this, but I am somewhat amazed > that this cabability does not exist in Z/os. > Has anyone else encounterd this issue?
I certainly have, way too many times! Just last year, I had a customer which had that particular problem in over 700 SORT steps. Note that this isn't just a DFSORT problem: it also exists with SYNCSORT and CA-SORT. Over the years, I have used three approaches to solve this problem: 1. a generic E15/E35 exit called VSAMSORT which I first wrote in 1985 2. An ICETOOL step with COPY/COPY/SORT (an obviously more recent solution) 3. a request to the DFSORT developers to add support for multiple VSAM input files - that never worked :-( -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
