Well, I think that Rexx is the way to go...I made a simple program that will allow me to use the Unix format "\\n" newline separator to stack command lines, and don't have to worry about DFSORT vs SYNCSORT, or any other craziness.
Thanks for all your help and direction. Once we get all systems up to z/OS 2.1, none of this is a concern. Billy On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Paul Gilmartin < 0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Wed, 3 Feb 2016 10:35:13 -0500, Bill Ashton wrote: > > > >Peter, I appreciate the Syncsort checkout...we will have to keep that in > >mind in case any of our users have that instead of DFSORT at their > location. > > > >The BPX option also seems safe - can we assume that this is now a > >"standard" program? > > > Yes, but: > o Some administrators loathe it since it has existed only since MVS 5.x. > Future Shock. > o Users must have assigned, Unique, or Default UIDs. > o PARM='SH ...' causes additional lexical transformations by shell. > o PARM='PGM ...' causes minimal conversion, using sequences of > blanks as token separators. > > >I will continue to follow this for other ideas, but it looks like the > >safest bet is to use Rexx or BPX. > > > I believe I'll recommend Rexx. Perhaps because DFSORT is Klingon to me. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Thank you and best regards, *Billy Ashton* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
