On 05/17/2018 01:25 PM, Edward Gould wrote: >> On May 17, 2018, at 11:21 AM, Sri h Kolusu <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>> in IBM sort you have to specify equals this seemed to be the hardest >> Edward, >> >> You can set EQUALS as default at the installation level for DFSORT. There >> is a slight overhead with EQUALS option which increases the time needed for >> comparison of records and for data transfer. DFSORT team provides >> documentation of how Syncsort SYNCMAC installation options relate to DFSORT >> ICEMAC installation options, based on our best current knowledge of the two >> products. It's meant to be used as a guideline to help you determine how >> to set your DFSORT ICEMAC options for easier migration >> >> >> Thanks, >> Kolusu >> DFSORT Development >> IBM Corporation > > Yes I knew that. It was more of an issue with SYNCSORT defaulting to it and > not highlighting the fact. What we did in this one specific instance was to > allow them to specify equals. > Those few extra say milliseconds add up over a week/month/year I will say it > was hell to debug until the programmer gave us a hint. That and the fact that > was the *ONLY* glitch in that conversion. I got a stubbed toe in my > reputation from management. Up until that my reputation was excellent and no > one ever questioned me, after it was Hmmm… And just how many stubbed toes have they had? Damn I hate hearing stuff like this. > > Ed >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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
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