Agreed. Note (FWIW) that BatchPipes works well with DFSORT. "FWIW" because that's not quite the same thing.
Also FWIW, I consider IFTHEN logic a kind of pipelining within DFSORT. (Not that I need the blog hits :-) but I used the term "pipelining" in https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/MartinPacker/entry/multiline_message_sifting_with_dfsort32?lang=en and first used it in https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker/entry/unknown_unknowns?lang=en_us .) Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker Podcast Series (With Marna Walle): https://developer.ibm.com/tv/mpt/ or https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/mainframe-performance-topics/id1127943573?mt=2 From: Paul Gilmartin <0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 17/11/2017 15:00 Subject: Re: Pipelines in the z/OS base. Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Fri, 17 Nov 2017 14:29:41 +0000, Martin Packer wrote: >Thinking laterally I think "Sorting in Rexx" could arguably be better done >by an interface to DFSORT. But BOTH possibilities are worth asking for. > That should exist as a general purpose interface to "the other side of a DDNAME". Imagine being able to connect a Pipeline to SORTIN and SORTOUT to a Pipeline independent of the sort routine (DFSORT , SYNCSORT, ...) as easily as in UNIX: 502 $ ls -li | sort -unk1,1 | wc # Count unique i-numbers. 997 10232 78714 ( I recall in the documentation for Pipelines SORT a statement that large data sets are better handled by an external SORT routine.) Such a facility should not be specific to SORT, but should support any classical utility that has an input file and an output file. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
