"Tom Longfellow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/17/2007 07:40:52 PM: > Thanks for the answer. While I still do not understand SPLICE and IFTHEN > well enough to build one from scratch, I was able to modify your example to > handle my VB records (RECT1 and RECT2 are not the same length). I have > compared the results of the existing REXX solution to the results of the > ICETOOL solution. The output records are identical and the runtime reduced > from 30 minutes to 5 minutes. A net savings of 146 hours over a year. > > That is why I love sort and all of the cool features like SPLICE. If only > I could get past whatever it is that makes it so hard for me to understand > the syntax of these newer features. > > ------- > (hopefully, this will go to the mailing list as you suggested)
Tom, I'm happy to hear that you were able to get what you wanted with reduced runtime based on my example. I'm also glad you like the "cool" features of DFSORT and DFSORT's ICETOOL. As for understanding the syntax, I'd suggest reading through "z/OS DFSORT: Getting Started". It's an excellent tutorial, with lots of examples, that will show you how to use DFSORT, DFSORT's ICETOOL and DFSORT Symbols. You can access it online, along with all of the other DFSORT books, from: www.ibm.com/servers/storage/support/software/sort/mvs/srtmpub.html Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Team (IBM) - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Specialties: PARSE, JFY, SQZ, ICETOOL, IFTHEN, OVERLAY, Symbols, Migration => DFSORT/MVS is on the Web at http://www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
