Neither Frank, nor IBM, nor anyone from Syncsort is likely to say this, but my PERCEPTION is (and has been for the last couple of DECADES) that as far as "functionality" goes, the two products tend to play "leap-frog", that is, that whatever one introduces, the other provides a comparable feature within the next couple of releases.
Therefore, if you look at a "snapshot" of what they offer today, the chances are pretty good that there MIGHT be some "obscure" feature that one has but the other doesn't (possibly even something not so obscure), but that if you look at that same feature in two years, they both will have it and some thing else will be available in one, but not the other - with no guarantee as to which will be first. In GENERAL, the same is also true about "performance" of the products, but that may take LONGER for the "trailer" to catch up with (and surpass) the current leader (and this usually happens only for a relatively small type of SORTs). OBVIOUSLY, YMMV <G> "??? ?? ???" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Hi, > > It is time to renew out Syncsort z/OS license. DFSort turns out to be significantly cheaper. > > How much of a hassle is it to replace Syncsort z/OS with DFSort? > > Will we be losing any functionality? > Will we be gaining any functionality? > > TIA > > Gadi ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
