Dave Kopischke wrote on 01/15/2008 09:57:20 AM: > >Will MERGE operate on a single input file, or would it require > >SORTIN02 DD DUMMY? > > > > My manual doesn't state a minimum. It just says the maximum is 32 DD's > following the naming pattern SORTINnn. You can skip sequence numbers too if > you want. My manual is pretty old, so the 32 DD constraint might have been > relieved at some point. Give it a try and see.
If it's a DFSORT manual, it must be very old. DFSORT has supported up to 100 DD's for MERGE since 1998. Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Development Team (IBM) - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Specialties: PARSE, JFY, SQZ, ICETOOL, IFTHEN, OVERLAY, 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html