EasySort

[halfmeg]

Some time back I had made notes of items which I would like to include in the Turnkey system.  Several folks have mentioned creating a SORT which didn't rely on 2314 DASD as sortwork packs.

Gilbert Saint-Flour has a file of programs which are said to be MVS 3.8j and IFOX compatible.

http://gsf-soft.com/Freeware/osvs238j.zip

One of the programs is something called EasySort.  I don't know if it can handle multiple fields, but a line in the sample JCL caught my eye.

//SORTWK01 DD UNIT=3380,SPACE=(CYL,1)        

Would EasySort or something similiar get SORT off of 2314s ?

Phil

[halfmeg]

> halfmeg wrote:

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> One of the programs is something called EasySort.  I don't know if it
> can handle multiple fields, but a line in the sample JCL caught my
> eye.
 
> //SORTWK01 DD UNIT=3380,SPACE=(CYL,1)        
 
> Would EasySort or something similiar get SORT off of 2314s ?

And upon further investigation, EasySort doesn't work on 3.8j unless the following changes are made:

&LABEL.S DC    C' SORT FIELDS=&FIELDS,DYNALLOC=3380 '

changed to:

&LABEL.S DC    C' SORT FIELDS=&FIELDS'

//SORTWK01 DD UNIT=3380,SPACE=(CYL,1)

is replaced by:

//SORTWK01 DD UNIT=2314,SPACE=(CYL,10)
//SORTWK02 DD UNIT=2314,SPACE=(CYL,10)
//SORTWK03 DD UNIT=2314,SPACE=(CYL,10)

and

//SORTLIB  DD DSN=SYS1.SORTLIB,DISP=SHR

added to the job.

Then it works fine.

Phil