Ed Gould wrote on 01/31/2009 08:07:47 PM: > I have done a couple of conversions but that was more than 10 years > ago so anything I write could be out of date so take it for what its worth.
Things have, of course, changed a lot for both products in 10 years. I never understand why you think what happened 10 years ago is relevant today. > Syncsort sorts a little differently than DFSORT in some cases. This > showed up with any records with equal keys. IIRC syncsort sorted > them FIFO and DFSORT sorted them equally. We resolved this issue > with the EQUALS install option. Both products have EQUALS and NOEQUALS options. EQUALS guarantees FIFO order. NOEQUALS does not. The difference you saw was probably due to different default installation settings and can easily be handled by setting the same installaion default for both products. That was true then and it's true now. > ... > One thing that I really liked about SYNCSORT is that you could > override any sort parameters with a $ortparm dd statement. I used > that quite often debugging sorts invoked by cobol. I do not remember > off the top of my head if DFSORT ever came up with a similar option, > memory says maybe but check the books to make sure. DFSORT has had the DFSPARM DD statement since 1988 for that and also supports $ORTPARM as an alias of DFSPARM. Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Development Team (IBM) - [email protected] Specialties: FINDREP, WHEN=GROUP, DATASORT, ICETOOL, Symbols, Migration => DFSORT/MVS is on the Web at http://www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
