On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:17:09 -0800, Frank Yaeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Mark Zelden wrote on 01/17/2008 03:33:11 PM: >> I used "SORTGENR" for years (in the "old days") at shops that didn't >> have ICEGENER or SYNCGENR installed: >> >> //STEP1 EXEC PGM=SORT >> //SORTIN DD DISP=SHR,DSN=input >> //SORTOUT DD DISP=SHR,DSN=output >> //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=* >> //SYSIN DD * >> SORT FIELDS=COPY >> /* > >I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. SORTGENER is an alias >for ICEGENER. > Sorry... SORTGENR is the member name in my personal PDS - which was why I quoted it. I created it a long time ago... (mid 80's). >PGM=SORTGENR will do the same thing PGM=ICEGENER does. > >The job you show with PGM=SORT uses DFSORT copy directly without going >through ICEGENER. > I know. As I wrote... it was what I used for shops that did not have ICEGENER or SYNCGENR installed. Installing it wasn't always as simple as it is today and many shops didn't bother. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
