On Sun, 28 May 2006 07:39:37 -0700 Frank Yaeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>"Puddin' Man" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :>> Do "standard" E15 and E35 Exit routines ship with the z/OS :>> product? :>> Or do the SYNCSORT, DFSORT, etc. folks write/assemble their :>> own and ship them with -their- product? :>The purpose of an E15/E35 is to let the user supply a routine with :>customized logic to do whatever the user wants it to do, so it doesn't :>really make sense to talk about a "standard" E15/E35 routine. Generally, :>an E15/E35 is used to provide logic to do things that the sort product :>doesn't have built-in functions for. DFSORT does provide some examples in :>"z/OS DFSORT Application Programming Guide", but they are just examples and :>not meant to be anything "standard". I guess that one could argue that the "standard" E15 reads the records to be sorted from SORTIN, and the "standard" E35 writes the sorted records to SORTOUT. One would write an E15 if one is programmatically generating the records to be sorted and does not want to go thru the overhead of creating an output file and sending it to sort, and one would write an E35 if one is consuming the records and does not want to go to the overhead of having sort produce a file and reading it back. -- Binyamin Dissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
