We ran in to this issue during our preparation for migration to z/OS from VSE in 2010. I seem to recall Syncsort saying they were making a change to support this, but I don't recall anything similar with DFSORT. We still went with DFSORT, but we still have to copy our VSAM files to flat files before we can sort them all together. :-(
________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of John McKown <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 9:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: DFSORT mixed VSAM & sequential. I can't find a way to do the following. Basically a programmer want to create an output data set which is the sorted input from a sequential data set and a VSAM file. I don't see any way to do this easily. We plan to unload the VSAM to sequential, then sort it with the other sequential data set. But that is just more work. I wonder why DFSORT doesn't have a way to handle this. -- Unix: Some say the learning curve is steep, but you only have to climb it once. -- Karl Lehenbauer Unicode: http://xkcd.com/1726/ Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
