BTW my point about our preferring IFASMFDP over DFSORT (perhaps ICEGENER) was meant to be a little provocative. (And ONE person responded offline, pointing out the contradiction between my statement just now and what I've said in my blog.)
The recommendation to use IFASMFDP rather than ICEGENER came from "our" accumulated 25 years or so of folklore in my team (aggregated as probably more than 100 person years). SOMEWHERE in that vast time range someone must've hit a problem with ICEGENER. Possibly in fact it would've been a failure to specify VBS. Whatever, our instructions became "don't use DFSORT or IEBGENER, use IFASMFDP. Personally I've never hit the problem and DFSORT Development pointed out to me a while back they DON'T have a problem with spanned records. And haven't as far back as they can remember, which I think is a LONG time. :-) So, more pointedly than my previous attempt, has anyone ever had a problem with ICEGENER / DFSORT copying SMF? And as much to the point what about IEBGENER? Thanks, Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
