On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:46:02 -0600, Mark Zelden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>>
>  Will DFSORT operate on Unix files?
>>
>
>Never tried it.  I think it would if you got the JCL and sort statements
>correct.
>

This worked (SYNCSORT).  But I did have to specify LRECL, BLKSIZE,
and RECFM on the DDs or I got RC16:


 //SORT        EXEC  PGM=SORT                                         
//SYSOUT   DD  SYSOUT=*                                              
//SORTIN   DD  PATH='/u/myuserid/testdata',                          
//         LRECL=80,BLKSIZE=8000,RECFM=FB,                           
//         PATHOPTS=ORDONLY,FILEDATA=TEXT                            
//SORTOUT  DD  PATH='/u/myuserid/testdata.sorted',                   
//         PATHDISP=(KEEP,DELETE),                                   
//         PATHOPTS=(OWRONLY,OCREAT,OEXCL),PATHMODE=(SIRWXU,SIRGRP), 
//         LRECL=80,BLKSIZE=8000,RECFM=FB,                           
//         FILEDATA=TEXT                                             
//SORTWK01 DD  UNIT=SYSDA,SPACE=(CYL,(1))                            
//SYSIN    DD  *                                                     
   SORT FIELDS=(1,80,CH,A)                                           
   END                                                               


Mark
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