> On May 17, 2018, at 12:20 AM, zos reader <zos.rea...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello All, > > We are planning to migrate Syncsort to IBM DFSort, May you share your > thoughts on it, some might have done this on their shops, please share your > experience > > Thanks, Samat >
I have done this a few times over the years. The little issues were : 1. The syntax for Syncsort control statements is (at least the times that I was involved) were slightly different and usually a call to IBM resolved the differences. 2. The second issue that seems to float to the top is (my memory is being stretched here) Syncsort defaulted to “equals" and in IBM sort you have to specify equals this seemed to be the hardest to debug and we ran into that once. Once you figured it out its a no-brainer (but getting there is not easy IIRC). Please note this was quite a few years ago, but Syncsort seemed to leap frog IBM sometimes in control statements and it can get out hand. We always had the rule that you could not use those special statements and it worked out in the long run. It used to be that Syncsort had better level 2 support, but IBM came to the batters box and either equaled or superseded syncsort. Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
