That is one surprising thing about Rexx and sort.. that Rexx doesn't have built in support to call sort without a rigamarole.
Rob On Tue, Jun 6, 2017, 1:29 PM John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 11:55 AM, Paul Gilmartin < > 0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > > On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 06:44:25 -0400, John Eells wrote: > > >> > > >> ... I expect to be informed of deficiencies of crontab, but at least > > it's there. > > ><snip> > > > > > >Why do you think crontab is "not there" in z/OS? > > > > > I'm aware that it's there, although only recently (from my perspective). > > I don't know that it meets all the requirements of a job scheduler. > > > > And some readers of this list still prefer not to deal with UNIX. But > > I guess that's a personal problem. > > > > (E.g coding dozens of lines of DFSORT commands where a single > > "grep" would suffice.) > > > > One could argue that DFSORT is superior due to it's extreme efficiency. > Especially compared to "grep". But that only applies when one is running it > in "heavy demand" situation. IMO, a slightly better case would be writing > something in "awk" versus REXX. IMO, for an "ad hoc", awk might possibly > beat REXX, if the programmer knows both. But only if the Co:Z hybrid batch > product (free from Dovetailed Technologies!) is installed. I wish that IBM > would license & bundle Co:Z with z/OS. That would increase it's legitimacy > to staid I.T. managers. > > > > > > > --gil > > > > > -- > Prof: So the American government went to IBM to come up with a data > encryption standard and they came up with ... > > Student: EBCDIC! > > Maranatha! <>< > John McKown > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Rob Schramm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
