On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 17:06:05 -0500, TonyICLOUD wrote: >In the "bad old days" this was called a Suicide Sort. Sadly, it was >often necessitated by lack of disk space, or horror of horrors, lack of >scratch tapes. I remember a time, with a spendthrift company, that I >routinely re-initialized old version vendor installation tapes to use >for output. CA was a generous provider. > IBM, OTOH, had (has?) an EULA which asserted that IBM software is licensed, not sold; the media remain the property of IBM, and on termination of the contract must be returned to IBM. Did customers routinely do this? Did IBM enforce this, and take legal recourse for noncompliance?
E-Delivery? Well, sure; when the license ends, we'll transmit it back to them. A sort of a small data set can be performed in main storage and written back to the original medium (subject to physical failure). As a sort of a large data set draws to a close the data are (should be; perhaps) all in work data sets. Recovery? There are companies that specialize in this. DISP=(NEW,DELETE,CATLG)? Oops; the step didn't ABEND; merely terminated with RC=16. Ah, well. I can't imagine such a large sort proceeding without scratch volumes. //SORTWK1 DD DSN=*.SORTIN? AOL used to keep me supplied with floppy disks. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
