Gilbert Saint-Flour wrote:
John,
The problem is the restriction imposed by the access-method (EOV, mostly) that
a VSAM data set can't be part of a concatenation. As a result, if a program
(SORT or otherwise) wants to read more than one data set and at least one is
VSAM, then it must use several DD statements and different DD names.
What I would like is that SORT utility programs be enhanced with an option to
read SORTIN data sets using several DD names, such as SORTIN01-SORTIN99.
This is already what they do when the command is MERGE, but when the command
is SORT, the only thing they do is read the SORTIN concatenation .
Here's an example of what I would like:
//STEP100 EXEC PGM=SORT
//SORTIN01 DD DSN=VSAM.DATA.SET,DISP=OLD
//SORTIN02 DD DSN=NON-VSAM.DATA.SET,DISP=OLD
//SORTOUT DD DSN=....
SORT FIELDS=(1,8,CH,A)
/*
Uh, you mean DISP=SHR on those input files, right?
Kind regards,
-Steve Comstock
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