On Tue, 16 Jan 2018 23:45:34 +0000, Gibney, Dave wrote: >I do believe that I should be able to point DFSORT at any file (Unix or not) >where performing the functions of DFSORT make sense, and not be required to >specify in JCL the physical attributes of LRECL, RECFM and most especially >BLKSIZE. These should all be derivable from the physical dataset at open time. >This should not be extended to think I am saying that these JCL statements >should be disallowed as overrides for some reason or other. > And I do believe that I should be able to perform shell redirection to any file (UNIX or Classic data set). Tough that we can't do all these things.
>And, DDFSORT (or other utilities) should be able to detect (and coherently >report) when they are asked to perform functions against data that is not in a >useable or logical format for the function requested. > Yes. And the OP's S001-1 hardly qualifies as a coherent report. But DFSORT may have converted the message or the OP may have omitted some details. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
