Gilbert, Your suggestion is clearly much more feasible than programming around the restriction. I will speak with the Development Group about this.
Sincerely, John Reda Software Services Manager Syncsort Inc. 201-930-8260 > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Gilbert Saint-Flour > Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 2:20 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Dorting multiple VSAM and PS files > > John, > > The problem is the restriction imposed by the access-method (EOV, mostly) > that > a VSAM data set can't be part of a concatenation. As a result, if a > program > (SORT or otherwise) wants to read more than one data set and at least one > is > VSAM, then it must use several DD statements and different DD names. > > What I would like is that SORT utility programs be enhanced with an option > to > read SORTIN data sets using several DD names, such as SORTIN01-SORTIN99. > This is already what they do when the command is MERGE, but when the > command > is SORT, the only thing they do is read the SORTIN concatenation . > Here's an example of what I would like: > > //STEP100 EXEC PGM=SORT > //SORTIN01 DD DSN=VSAM.DATA.SET,DISP=OLD > //SORTIN02 DD DSN=NON-VSAM.DATA.SET,DISP=OLD > //SORTOUT DD DSN=.... > SORT FIELDS=(1,8,CH,A) > /* > > -- > Gilbert Saint-Flour > GSF Software > http://gsf-soft.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
