Back 40 years ago we sorted the name & address file everyweek and
IIRC that was 40M records. Yes we used tape sort. It ran standalone
(except for the onlines) they finally broke it down to several sorts
and a merge as we didn't have tape/disk drives (can't remember the
number off the top of my head but I think 50 drives) it ran all day
Sunday and night.
Ed
On Sep 3, 2013, at 2:03 PM, Gibney, Dave wrote:
Unless you are really out of the ordinary, I would expect the use
of SORTWKnn on tape to be rare. AFAIK, It's purpose was for large
sorts in the ancient days of expensive disk. It took extra effort
to set-up.
I believe we had one job back in the 80's and it was changed away
from TAPESORT at some time in the 90's.
Dave Gibney
Information Technology Services
Washington State University
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I hope there's still some sort of centralised control and/or library.
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Yes . That would work fine in the case of scheduled jobs . But in
our shop,there is one more challenge that we have a lot of Auto-
sched jobs (jobs that are trigerred externally from an MQ
server ). And i do not know how many of them use tape sorting .
This makes the task more difficult .
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On Tue, 3 Sep 2013 09:34:26 -0500, Eric Bielefeld wrote:
Can't you use a program that will read the members of a pds and
search for
UNIT=TAPE on SORTWKnn DD statements? You should be able to
search all of
your production libraries fairly quickly to identify all of the jobs.
Hopefully you have standards so that production is all in a small
set of
libraries. I know there is a program on the CBT tape that allows
you to do
that. Since I've retired, I forgot what it was.
SuperC? (not available from CBT.)
-- gil
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