On Jan 31, 2007, at 10:53 AM, Gilbert Saint-Flour wrote:
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I certainly have, way too many times! Just last year, I had a
customer which
had that particular problem in over 700 SORT steps. Note that this
isn't
just a DFSORT problem: it also exists with SYNCSORT and CA-SORT.
Over the years, I have used three approaches to solve this problem:
1. a generic E15/E35 exit called VSAMSORT which I first wrote in 1985
2. An ICETOOL step with COPY/COPY/SORT (an obviously more recent
solution)
3. a request to the DFSORT developers to add support for multiple
VSAM input
files - that never worked :-(
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Gilbert Saint-Flour
GSF Software
http://gsf-soft.com/
I am guessing but would a MERGE do it? The records are pretty much in
sequence right? (I am guessing its a keyed file).
I do find this strange that it would not work as it would be a
reasonable thing to do, no?
Ed
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