On Tue, 21 Sep 2021 21:03:14 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote: >If a SORT (or other similar temporary data store) program is one of >the pipe programs, when the EXEC PGM= program closes the output file >then the program holding the data needs to output the stored data to >output ddnames (pipe or output files). > Are you thinking of MS-DOS pseudo-"pipes" where the upstream program wrote a temporary file under-the-covers and the downstream program processed it? A pipe in syntax only. Even Windows is better nowadays.
SORT is a bad conceptual example for Pipethink because SORT can't write its first output record until it has read its last input record. Better to envision a filter which re-formats log records from a long-running (or never-terminating) program, writing a file to be browsed with SDSF or tail -f in real time. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
