"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and you feed him for life."
An explanation is better than an example in the long run, although ideally you get both. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Tom Brennan [t...@tombrennansoftware.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2022 12:38 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Calculate deltas using DFSORT But with DFSORT I don't need to know the syntax at all. I can post a note here describing what I'm trying to do along with some data samples, and like the elves who make shoes, complete JCL and SYSIN will magically appear the next morning. On 8/30/2022 5:02 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > The DFSORT command syntax is dreadful -- too positional. It's > hard to read ...,keyword,value,keyword,value,... > Considerably better would be ,keyword(value), or ,keyword=value,... > I suppose the design is OK to programmers versed in it, but it > repels the novice. It may be easy for a computer to parse, > but silicon is now cheaper than carbon. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
