The SYNCSORT and DFSORT products are highly compatible. These products do not acquire temp storage the same. Nor are the controls cards coded the same. Both product work well but expect critical job abends and syntax errors after the conversion. Regards Otto Schumacher Technical Support, CICS
EDS, an HP Company Ahold Account 2000 Wade Hampton Blvd. LC1-302 Greenville, South Carolina, 29615 Tel: 864 987-1417 Fax: 864 987-4500 E-mail: [email protected] We deliver on our commitments so you can deliver on yours. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 1:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Syncsort vs competitors Lupher, Fred wrote: > We are a long time Syncsort customer. Our contract with them will be up for renewal soon, so this is a good time to consider the competitors. Does anyone have experience migrating away from Syncsort you'd care to share? Or if you looked into switching but decided not to, I'd be interested in knowing what stopped you? > It used to be the case that SORT consumed more CPU cycles than any other application in the average shop. I wonder if that's still a true statement. I read here (http://www.syncsort.com/newsdocs/press/sspress8.htm) that SyncSort now runs on zIIP engines. Is that also true of their competitors? -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 Los Angeles, CA 90045 310-338-0400 x318 [email protected] http://www.phoenixsoftware.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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
