Sorry about the late reply. The last time I seriously looked, the COBOL sort verb invoked the installation sort (DFsort, SYNCSORT,....).
The COBOL program effectively became the E15/E35 sort exits. On that basis, I would not expect any significant difference in CPU time consumed, *AND* as someone previously noted, a possible significant increase in elapsed time. HTH, <snip> It has been suggested to management here that there could be potentially significant CPU savings from re-engineering application programs such that any SORT's are done in a separate step, so that a program with a single internal SORT would be broken up into a pre-SORT process followed by an external SORT of the massaged data followed by a post-process of the SORTed data. </snip> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
