All VB files can be concatenated under
SORTIN. As lrecl is  irrelevant for VB
It's all in the RDW


Correct ?

Thanks   

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On Mar 19, 2013, at 12:21 PM, "Blaicher, Christopher Y." 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Micheal,
> 
> Syncsort does not support SORTIN01/SORTIN02/... , but we do support 
> SORTMI01/SORTMI02/... - see chapter 12 on MULTIIN in the PG.  This is used to 
> support logically concatenated VSAM files, IBM does not support concatenated 
> VSAM, or VSAM and other types of files.  All non-VSAM files must have the 
> same record type.
> 
> If you are talking about RECFM=F type files, then the MULTIIN feature does 
> not support multiple record lengths.
> 
> If you are talking about RECFM=V type files, then the MULTIIN feature 
> supports multiple LRECL specifications.
> 
> The manual goes into it in more detail.
> 
> Chris Blaicher
> Principal Software Engineer, Software Development
> Syncsort Incorporated
> 50 Tice Boulevard, Woodcliff Lake, NJ 07677
> P: 201-930-8260  |  M: 512-627-3803
> E: [email protected]
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of Micheal Burn
> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 5:38 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: SyncSort sortin different record length
> 
> Hi
> 
> Would anyone know if SyncSort accepts Sortinn (multiple sortins) With 
> different record lengths
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
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