John, I think you would be hard pressed not to find a MVS machine that did not have some sort of sort installed. now whether it is. The full compatibility of the two main sorts are equilivant. One can quible over one point or the other but they are running neck and neck. What made our decision was fastness of one sort over the other. At one time the oem sort distributed fixes in zap format. IBM AFAIK always sends out fixes in smpe module replacement format (my favorite). Frankly I lost track of the oem version 15 years ago.
I do not know if the OEM has been integrated into any of IBM offerings or not , I semi doubt it. The real point is that it (sort) is a parameterized program not a true utility. One could I guess argue any IBM utility is the same (at least in the MVS utility manual). Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
