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Am I using DFSORT or Syncsort?

Post by Anuj Dhawan » Thu Apr 02, 2009 5:13 pm

Hi,

People are usually confused in this, so I thought I'd post this for search hits.

To determine if you're using DFSORT (from IBM) or Syncsort (from Syncsort, Inc), run the PGM=ICEMAN JOB, actually any PGM=SORT or PGM=ICEMAN JOB. Look at the SYSOUT output. If it has ICExxxs messages, you're using DFSORT. If it has WERxxxs messages, you're using Syncsort.

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//S1 EXEC PGM=ICEMAN 
//SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=*    <--- look at messages 
//SORTIN DD * 
//SORTOUT DD DUMMY 
//SYSIN DD * 
  SORT FIELDS=COPY 
/* 
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Post by whatistheanswer » Thu Apr 02, 2009 7:50 pm

Anuj, thank you very much for answering my tomorrow's question :wink:

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Post by Frank Yaeger » Thu Apr 02, 2009 7:52 pm

Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Development Team (IBM) - yaeger@us.ibm.com
Specialties: JOINKEYS, FINDREP, WHEN=GROUP, ICETOOL, Symbols, Migration
=> DFSORT/MVS is on the Web at http://www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort

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Post by Anuj Dhawan » Thu Apr 02, 2009 10:53 pm

You're welcome... :)
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Post by Anuj Dhawan » Fri Apr 03, 2009 11:51 am

By the way, I believe, people like Frank should be thanked for this - they are the "Developers" of such products . . . we are just the users . . .
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Post by Frank Yaeger » Fri Apr 03, 2009 8:04 pm

Anuj,

Thank you.

That's a nice sentiment and one that I don't often hear. Most people don't even think about all of the engineers, scientists, etc who developed all of the wonderful products we take for granted these days. (I personally couldn't thank the inventor of the DVR enough, whoever that was.) I suspect many developers never get to interact directly with people who use their products. I consider myself lucky to be able to participate on help boards where my product is discussed. It's great to be able to get firsthand feedback from people who are actually using the functions I developed.
Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Development Team (IBM) - yaeger@us.ibm.com
Specialties: JOINKEYS, FINDREP, WHEN=GROUP, ICETOOL, Symbols, Migration
=> DFSORT/MVS is on the Web at http://www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort

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Thank you!

Post by anilanju » Wed May 13, 2009 5:37 pm

Hi Frank

Thank you a lot. You have really helped me many of my problems.

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Post by Anuj Dhawan » Wed May 13, 2009 10:58 pm

Hi Frank,

you deserve that . . . :) .

However, I would say that I'm luckier than you -- I do have the opportunity to "personally" Thank You. I still remember, i just started my career in Mainframes, and I put up some question on Sort and you were there to answer -- i asked how do you know this much about Sort and you simply said, "I "invented" ICETOOL"...!

Trust me -- I was too excited to have sleeps in nights for many nights... in a way I was influnced to learn more and more about mainframes -- i had a feel that when people like you are there to answer queries from a kid like me why not let's learn...so Thank You for being with us on this board . . . :)
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Post by Frank Yaeger » Wed May 13, 2009 11:06 pm

Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad I was able to inspire you to learn more and help others on this board. And so the "cycle of mainframe knowledge" continues. :D
Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Development Team (IBM) - yaeger@us.ibm.com
Specialties: JOINKEYS, FINDREP, WHEN=GROUP, ICETOOL, Symbols, Migration
=> DFSORT/MVS is on the Web at http://www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort

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Post by Anuj Dhawan » Thu May 14, 2009 11:59 am

Yes . . . :). The "feel" to interact with the "kernel writer" of ICETOOL is like... ummm...sorry.. description of that is beyond my vocab . . . :D.

Probably some day I would be able to meet you or Skolusu... :).

Have a good one,

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