On Oct 8, 2007, at 2:56 AM, Martin Packer wrote:
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.
Martin,
The one item that I can think of is that the IFASMDP offers to clear
the dataset after dumping. I am not sure if you can do that with DFSORT.
Ed
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