On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Bill Woodger <[email protected]> wrote:
> SyncSort allows use of SORTINnn DDs, so a VSAM dataset can have its own > DD. > > There aren't many places you can naturally concatenate VSAM. It is not > DFSORT preventing it. > > Using a different key for the VSAM data? Otherwise it is already sorted > anyway. > > REPRO you may find substantially more efficient at reading a KSDS. > Although all the extra typing for another step may seem inefficient, give > it a go (SORT a KSDS on a different key vs. REPRO and SORT). > This is what we will do. I guess the programmer just didn't want the "bother" of sizing the output sequential data set for the REPRO outpu. -- 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
