On Wed, 3 Feb 2016 10:35:13 -0500, Bill Ashton wrote: > >Peter, I appreciate the Syncsort checkout...we will have to keep that in >mind in case any of our users have that instead of DFSORT at their location. > >The BPX option also seems safe - can we assume that this is now a >"standard" program? > Yes, but: o Some administrators loathe it since it has existed only since MVS 5.x. Future Shock. o Users must have assigned, Unique, or Default UIDs. o PARM='SH ...' causes additional lexical transformations by shell. o PARM='PGM ...' causes minimal conversion, using sequences of blanks as token separators.
>I will continue to follow this for other ideas, but it looks like the >safest bet is to use Rexx or BPX. > I believe I'll recommend Rexx. Perhaps because DFSORT is Klingon to me. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
