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- Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 16:04:00 PDT
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- From: Leonard D Woren <LDW@USCMVSA.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: VSAM AIX Build with SMS
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- I haven't tried external sort because I don't build many AIXs, and I
- haven't had the external sort PTF on the system for very long. But I
- would figure that if you're using external sort, the IDCUTn DDs would
- not be needed -- you would instead need SORTWK0n DDs for the sort
- package.
-
- There was an old SHARE requirement for IDCAMS BUILDIX to allow use of
- external sort. IBM let it languish until the screams about IDCUTn in
- an SMS environment got too loud, then they fixed it by answering an
- old, seemingly unrelated requirement. Amusing...
-
- /Leonard
-