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DFSMS DFSORT

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DFSORT AI Engine

Customer runs lots of DFSORT workload and often has to tune its parameters according to the input file characteristics , amount of memory available and other factors. This can be a cumbersome task, error prone and sometimes cause inefficient use o...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Future consideration

IBM zSort accelerator to support removing dublicates

We have enabled the IBM zSort accelerator with succes. But notice that some of our jobs containing sorts, are not elegible.Specifically jobs that sort and remove duplicates. We believe that removing duplicates is a feature that should be possible ...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 0 Future consideration

DFSORT Y2x fields WTO or SMF field

We need a way to identify all DFSORT job steps using Y2x fields. We want to get away from using 2-digit years and the need to periodically update the Y2PAST/CENTURY/CENTWIN global options. For this we need to take an inventory of what is actually ...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Future consideration

ICETOOL new format of date and time for timestamp from Unix system

I receive a file from IBM Unix system. The date and time is in the following format : number of seconds since 01 january 1970. This number is on 4 bytes length. I try to use a date format with ICETOOL to have a good date and time formatted value. ...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Future consideration

DFSORT diagnostic messages: suggested enhancements

I have been encouraging the use of DFSORT/ICETOOL in our shop. We have found 3 diagnostic messages which currently provide too little information for easy problem diagnosis. We would like to see these messages enhanced to contain additional diagno...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Future consideration

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