On Fri, 2 Sep 2016 15:00:28 -0500, Edward Gould <[email protected]> wrote:
I think I can assume this is me. I already acknowledged it *can* be done in an exit. What I'm saying is that last time I tried it, it was not a good way to do it. My exit was in COBOL. COBOL IO for a KSDS is considerably slower than DFSORT itself does it, and REPRO is even better at flattening a KSDS. On top of the IO differences, you have the overhead of the exit. Just because it can be done, doesn't mean it is a good idea. OK, I could at least have recommended an evaluation, but I'd expect REPRO-to-flat vs EXIT for multiple KSDS to have substantially fewer EXCPs across the whole process. What I don't want people to do is to blindly jump onto the idea that an exit is a great way to do this. >I think the Sort teams response answers it. >I think Bill Wood’s response was off the mark. > E15 allows the exit to read multiple types of DS’s (assuming all things being > equal i.e. LRECL for example) . >I have never experimetted with SORT reading a VSAM ds so I will pass on >commenting. >Since sort can do both let the sort do it. > >Ed >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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
