Paul, not only has DFSORT had access to system symbols for a long time, it has as equal an access to the new substitution of symbols in instream data as anything else. This does depend on the data being instream. The availability of system symbols within DFSORT allows them to be used even without the data being instream.
It would be ironic if Elardus followed your advice, only to find that his IEBGENER is an alias of ICEGENER and that DFSORT will be used for operations without any IEBGENER control cards. Isn't the "Midnight Problem" just a minor variant of the rerun-on-another-day/testing-for-a-specifc-date problem? Have a date file. Use DFSORT (or anything else) to generate a DFSORT Sort Symbol file with a name for the date. Use the symbol. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
