On Thu, 7 Feb 2013 08:20:15 -0600, Kevin Minerley wrote: >I found that zVM CMS Pipelines (aka SmartBatch or BatchPipes in MVS and >OS/390) could >handle almost any volume of data. I know we used to "mirror" and manipulate >multiple tape volumes >on-and-off multiple 3390s using "stages" in those products. Also analyzed all >the AID generating >keystrokes on a given node. Never balked, didn't slow others down, and for >all intents-and-purposes was >practically "real time". > I've never used the z/OS equivalent; don't believe we have it herabouts. but doc for the VM/CMS product warns:
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/BOOKS/DFSC4A01/4.4.193 4. Use DFSORT/CMS, IBM Program Number 5664-325, to sort files that are too large for sort. dfsort can be used to interface CMS Pipelines to this sort program. So, is BatchPipes sort perhaps just a front-end for a more industrial-strength sort? (Citations such as above will be a lot less fun when publibz gives way to Infocenter.) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN