CA-SORT is still available. I don't think there are many external users. CA may use it internally in some of their products to be independent of the differences in DFSORT vs. SyncSort.
On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 21:00 -0800, Ed Gould wrote: > Charles: > > I worded that poorly and agree with you. > ALthough outside of report writers I can' think of any other reasons > for needing them. But again why not have them freely available for > all? > There are no secrets to be gained from the records as each > installation (at least in the case of ACF2) write rules for dataset > usage so indeed the information seems limited to the installation to > understand and interpret them. > > The only possible information to be gained is possibly sort SMF > records and that if you are attempting to write your own sort. With > DFSORT and SYNCSORT are the only two sorts available there used to be > another one but have not heard anything out of them in probably 20+ > years (maybe more). > > Ed > -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
