On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 19:56:19 +0000, Christopher Y. Blaicher wrote: > >If reproducibility of record sequences is important, then use the EQUALS >option. It adds to the key length, but nothing comes for free, although it >would have to be a pretty huge sort to notice the difference. > >I would say that most installations have EQUALS as their default. > This is barely tolerable, only given that DFSORT (may I guess SYNCSORT also?) allows an overriding(?) NOEQUALS option. Installations should think twice (several times) before altering a vendor's default. Consistency, and KISS. At least, it invalidates the vendor's documentation (ignoring an absurd suggestion that each site should provide a local copy of vendor's documentation tailored to reflect installation defaults.)
Should an ISV test its code according to the primary vendor's defaults? To the modal installation defaults? Both? That can exponentially increase the number of required test cases. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
