Ed Gould wrote on 02/02/2009 11:43:25 PM: > Frank of all the people to pipe up I am surprised as I have always > said good things about DFSORT. If I said anything bad (I reread it) > and couldn't see anything negative. If all you have to say are > unkind words I will to re-evaluate the sort issue.
Ed, I regret what I said. I should have just kept my thoughts to myself. It wasn't meant to be unkind. It was just meant to question whether. experiences on this particular Subject from 10 years ago were relevant today. I hope you really don't evaluate products based on what people say about your posts rather than on the product's merits. >It appears there is nit picking going on where non is needed, IMO. I don't think I was nitpicking. Many people don't understand, that to get the same results from both products, you need to use EQUALS for both of them. And whether you have EQUALS on or not depends on how its set as an installation option at the site. You said you had to turn it on for DFSORT. You could just as easily have had to turn it on for Syncsort. You seemed to imply that the difference was more than that. If I misinterpreted what you said, I'm sorry, but I suspect others might have too. I just wanted to set the record straight. Likewise with $ORTPARM/DFSPARM. You were talking about a function that you used with Syncsort 10 years ago and questioning whether DFSORT had it. I just pointed out that DFSORT had it 10 years before that. I don't see how what I said about it could be construed as nitpicking, downplaying it or anything else negative. I agree it's a good option. Perhaps we should both chill out. 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
