My $0.02 - knowing Syncsort back from 70's.. Yes - most of the Syncsort functions can be done with Unix / Linux tools. Performance - forget it..
You can't even compare Syncsort and the native Unix ( or Win or whatever. ) sorts to it. It's in class of it's own. Sorting is just not to sort some file - it's an art ( IMHO ). The difference is so big that it's sometimes hard to believe. If you are depent of sorts ( heavy reporting, batch runs, SQL - the SQL native sorts are not very good, etc. ) Syncsort is the only way. Let's hope to get "free as beer" Syncsort to Linux.. have nice day - tuomo ps. maybe pay a little - they also have to make the living.. -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chad Kerner Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 5:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Sort Products Thanks Mark. We are prototyping one of our critical HP-UX apps on Linux/390. How does the standard sort performance compare to that of SyncSort? -----Original Message----- From: Mark Earnest [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 5:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Sort Products -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Chad Kerner wrote: > Hello, > I was wondering what people are using for 3rd party sort > products on Linux/390. We have SyncSort for UNIX, but I haven't hit > their web site yet to see if it will run on Linux/390. Most of what you do with Syncsort can be done with standard Unix utilities. Linux has a sort program aptly named "sort". Type "man sort" for usage instructions. - -- Mark Earnest ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Senior Systems Programmer OAS-Infrastructure Penn State University Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office Phone: 814-863-2064 Public Key - http://mearnest.oas.psu.edu/gpgkey.txt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQE8UeYsXIT9wt3I2GMRApr4AJoCPg0pxmWoVbZAeQIOABpXx+gPKACgn0li SCGJEhJrsS9BzD9AkEu7cKY= =LXlg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
