The E11 exit will not look at any file. It is a, shall we say, dumb exit. If your question is what files Syncsort will look at in analyzing a concatenated SORTIN, it will look at all of them. One of the things it is trying to do is determine the input file size and the access method required to read the input.
Chris Blaicher Technical Architect Precisely.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Joseph Reichman Sent: Friday, September 11, 2020 11:41 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Syncsort E11 exit [ External - This message originated Externally. Use proper judgement and caution with attachments, links, or responses. ] I’m looking into that As an additional question We have a huge number of files When concatenating sortin Is there anyway to determine which file the exit is analyzing. Typically a program can do A Rdjfcb x’07’ to determine that but you have the DCB wonder if there is something you provide Thanks > On Sep 11, 2020, at 11:33 AM, Christopher Y. Blaicher > <cblaic...@precisely.com> wrote: > > If I understand what you want to do is to concatenate additional files to > SORTIN, then I would strongly urge you NOT to do that in the E11. You can, > but I would not be confident in the results. > By the time the E11 exit is called a certain amount of analysis of the files > has been done in the initialization phase. > It would be better to have a program that does the concatenation and then > invokes MFX. See the "Invoking MFX from a Program" chapter in the > Programmers Guide. > > Chris Blaicher > Technical Architect > Precisely.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Joseph Reichman > Sent: Friday, September 11, 2020 10:48 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Syncsort E11 exit > > [ External - This message originated Externally. Use proper judgement > and caution with attachments, links, or responses. ] > > Hi > > The documentation isn’t real clear on this exit outside of the fact > that it states they are entered in the beginning of their associated > phase > > I would like to use this exit to dynamically add files to sortin > > Would any one gave more info on this exit > > Thanks > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
