[Default] On 2 Sep 2016 13:31:37 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
[email protected] (Frank Swarbrick) wrote:

>That is certainly an interesting trick, and one I can't imagine I will be 
>using any time soon.  Doing a copy to a flat file first is much more straight 
>forward.  But thanks for trying!
>
A simple COBOL program could do the sort and with appropriate
copybooks shouldn't be to hard to code.  These days the amount of
memory taken by a COBOL program using the SORT verb is trivial
compared to the size of the address space.

Clark Morris
>
>Seems to me DFSORT should support the same option that DFSORT/VSE supports, 
>which is multiple SORTINxx labels, i.e.:
>
>
>//STEP01   EXEC PGM=SORT,COND=(4,LT)
>//SORTIN1  DD DSN=&DSNENV..DEMAND.DMDMTC.CICS,
>//            DISP=SHR
>//SORTIN2  DD DSN=&DSNENV..DEMAND.DDGENMT,
>//            DISP=SHR
>//         DD DSN=&DSNENV..DEMAND.DRTNMTC,
>//            DISP=SHR
>//         DD DSN=&DSNENV..DEMAND.DDMNTXX,
>//            DISP=SHR
>//         DD DSN=&DSNENV..DEMAND.DBKPGMT,
>//            DISP=SHR
>//         DD DSN=&DSNENV..DEMAND.DDMTCE,
>//            DISP=SHR
>//         DD DSN=&DSNENV..DEMAND.DDGMTC,
>//            DISP=SHR
>//         DD DSN=&DSNENV..DEMAND.MTCE.SAVE04,
>//            DISP=SHR
>//SORTOUT  DD DSN=&DSNENV..DEMAND.DDAMTC,
>
>
>VSE has to support this because there is no such thing as dataset 
>concatenation in VSE.  But it seems "obvious" to me that DFSORT for z/OS 
>should support this as well in order to allow multiple input files where at 
>least one is a VSAM file.
>
>
>Just MHO.  I'm not going to worry too much about it.  Though perhaps I will 
>open an RFE.
>
>
>Frank
>
>________________________________
>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of 
>Sri h Kolusu <[email protected]>
>Sent: Friday, September 2, 2016 1:30 PM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: DFSORT mixed VSAM & sequential.
>
>Frank,
>
>Thanks for sending the DCB properties of the files involved offline. Based
>on the DCB properties here is a DFSORT JOB that will give you the desired
>results without having you copy the VSAM cluster to a sequential file.
>
>We will be using the trick of JOINKEYS where you can have two subtasks
>with different files. All we need is an additional indicator at the end.
>
>
>//STEP0100 EXEC PGM=SORT
>//SYSOUT   DD SYSOUT=*
>//INVSAM   DD DISP=SHR,DSN=Your Input VSAM Cluster
>//*
>//INSEQF   DD DISP=SHR,DSN=Your Sequential file 1
>//         DD DISP=SHR,DSN=Your Sequential file 2
>...
>//         DD DISP=SHR,DSN=Your Sequential file n
>//*
>//SORTOUT  DD DSN=Your final output file,
>//            DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE),
>//            SPACE=(CYL,(X,Y),RLSE)
>//*
>//SYSIN    DD *
>  OPTION COPY
>  JOINKEYS F1=INVSAM,FIELDS=(1,10,A,13,4,A,17,4,A,11,2,A,501,1,A)
>  JOINKEYS F2=INSEQF,FIELDS=(1,10,A,13,4,A,17,4,A,11,2,A,501,1,A)
>  JOIN UNPAIRED
>  REFORMAT FIELDS=(F1:1,500,?,F2:1,500)
>  INREC IFOUTLEN=500,
>  IFTHEN=(WHEN=(501,1,CH,EQ,C'2'),BUILD=(502,500))
>//*
>//JNF1CNTL DD *
>  RECORD TYPE=F
>  INREC OVERLAY=(501:C'A')
>//JNF2CNTL DD *
>  INREC OVERLAY=(501:C'B')
>//*
>
>Further if you have any questions please let me know
>
>Thanks,
>Kolusu
>DFSORT Development
>IBM Corporation
>
>IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on
>09/02/2016 08:35:18 AM:
>
>> From: Frank Swarbrick <[email protected]>
>> To: [email protected]
>> Date: 09/02/2016 08:35 AM
>> Subject: Re: DFSORT mixed VSAM & sequential.
>> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]>
>>
>> Ed, there was no response from you in your response below.  :-)
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on
>> behalf of Edward Gould <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Thursday, September 1, 2016 9:51 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: DFSORT mixed VSAM & sequential.
>>
>> > On Aug 31, 2016, at 3:55 PM, Frank Swarbrick
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > FWIW, here his my example:
>> >
>> > //STEP00   EXEC PGM=IDCAMS
>> > //FILEIN   DD DSN=&DSNENV..DEMAND.DMDMTC.CICS,
>> > //            DISP=SHR
>> > //FILEOUT  DD DSN=&DSNENV..DEMAND.DMDMTC,
>> > //            DISP=SHR
>> > //SYSIN    DD *
>> > REPRO INFILE (FILEIN)-
>> >       OUTFILE (FILEOUT) REUSE
>> > //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
>> > //STEP01   EXEC PGM=SORT,COND=(4,LT)
>> > //SORTIN   DD DSN=&DSNENV..DEMAND.DMDMTC,
>> > //            DISP=SHR
>> > //         DD DSN=&DSNENV..DEMAND.DDGENMT,
>> > //            DISP=SHR
>> > //         DD DSN=&DSNENV..DEMAND.DRTNMTC,
>> > //            DISP=SHR
>> > //         DD DSN=&DSNENV..DEMAND.DDMNTXX,
>> > //            DISP=SHR
>> > //         DD DSN=&DSNENV..DEMAND.DBKPGMT,
>> > //            DISP=SHR
>> > //         DD DSN=&DSNENV..DEMAND.DDMTCE,
>> > //            DISP=SHR
>> > //         DD DSN=&DSNENV..DEMAND.DDGMTC,
>> > //            DISP=SHR
>> > //         DD DSN=&DSNENV..DEMAND.MTCE.SAVE04,
>> > //            DISP=SHR
>> > //SORTOUT  DD DSN=&DSNENV..DEMAND.DDAMTC,
>> > //            DISP=SHR
>> > //DFSPARM  DD *
>> > SORT FIELDS=(1,10,PD,A,13,4,PD,A,17,4,PD,A,11,2,PD,A),EQUALS
>> > //SYSOUT   DD SYSOUT=*
>> >
>> >
>> > ________________________________
>> > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on
>> behalf of Sri h Kolusu <[email protected]>
>> > Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 12:20 PM
>> > To: [email protected]
>> > Subject: Re: DFSORT mixed VSAM & sequential.
>> >
>> > John,
>> >
>> > As Bill mentioned it is the access methods that is preventing the
>> > concatenation of the VSAM files.
>> >
>> > If you can send your existing job and  control cards may be I can
>suggest
>> > an alternative to copying VSAM to sequential file
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Kolusu
>> > DFSORT Development
>> > IBM Corporation
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > From:   John McKown <[email protected]>
>> > To:     [email protected]
>> > Date:   08/31/2016 08:11 AM
>> > Subject:        DFSORT mixed VSAM & sequential.
>> > Sent by:        IBM Mainframe Discussion List
><[email protected]>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 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
>>
>>
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