I'm not against "advanced techniques" when they are the best way to solve the issue. In this case I don't believe the use of the advanced technique is the proper way to solve the issue. Just MHO...
________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Farley, Peter x23353 <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 3, 2016 12:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: DFSORT mixed VSAM & sequential. Frank, <Rant> I can't help but respond to you on this. I have personally encountered this exact attitude with respect to advanced SORT capabilities ("Who besides you can maintain this next year?") and I find it so short-sighted as to be detrimental to any business organization's survival. If a senior technician can use freely available software documentation to figure out how to efficiently solve a business need, then that technique can be taught to less experienced programmers who may be called upon to maintain the control input at a later date. We are talking about fairly simple control syntax here which is very well documented, including flowcharts of the processes (thank you DFSORT documentation team). It is far from being rocket science. IMHO the failure here is a management failure to support the concept of keeping the less experienced members of the technical team trained up to the ever-changing landscape of the tools of our trade. Rather than invest in continuing technical education, they would rather hire barely trained apprentice programmers and pay them the lowest possible wages, and insist that all coding that solves business problems must be done to the lowest possible standard so that apprentices can understand. This aids the payment of their bonuses this year by keeping payroll to the bare minimum, and does nothing else to promote the long-term success of the business. </Rant> As you can probably tell, this is a sore subject with me. Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick Sent: Friday, September 02, 2016 4:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: DFSORT mixed VSAM & sequential. 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! -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
