Joined: 02 Dec 2002 Posts: 1618 Topics: 31 Location: San Jose
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 1:42 pm Post subject: New DFSORT/ICETOOL Features (July, 2008)
PTF UK90013 for z/OS DFSORT V1R5 (July, 2008) provides important enhancements to DFSORT and DFSORT's ICETOOL for find and replace (FINDREP), group operations (WHEN=GROUP); sorting data between headers and trailers (DATASORT); keeping or removing the first n records, last n records and/or specific relative records (SUBSET); selecting the first n duplicate records (SELECT with FIRST(n) and FIRSTDUP(n)); splicing with non-blank fields (SPLICE with WITHANY); displaying and writing counts (DISPLAY with COUNT, EDCOUNT, BCOUNT and EDBCOUNT, and COUNT with ADD, SUB, WRITE, TEXT, DIGITS, EDCOUNT and WIDTH); reports with multiple and multipart titles (DISPLAY and OCCUR with TITLE, TLEFT and TFIRST); reports without carriage control characters (DISPLAY and OCCUR with NOCC); additional defaults (BLKSIZE for DUMMY, SKIP=0L for SECTIONS, and SORTOUT=ddname for FNAMES); easier migration from other sort products, and more.
For complete details on these new features, see my "User Guide for DFSORT PTF UK90013" paper (sortugpf.pdf) at:
Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 92 Topics: 4 Location: Paris, France
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:44 pm Post subject:
Frank,
I have just read the new features and I find them very close to what has been so often asked through the forums.
Since a way to do it was available, I would never bet a cent to see WHEN=GROUP inserted in the interns of dfsort !
Well, I
Joined: 02 Dec 2002 Posts: 1618 Topics: 31 Location: San Jose
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 4:02 pm Post subject:
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I have just read the new features and I find them very close to what has been so often asked through the forums.
No coincidence there. While participating in the Forums, I monitor what people are trying to do and use that as input to the planning process for new DFSORT/ICETOOL functions.
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Since a way to do it was available, I would never bet a cent to see WHEN=GROUP inserted in the interns of dfsort !
The IFTHEN group trick you so kindly provided several years ago has been extremely useful. But it's tricky and has limitations. So I "invented" WHEN=GROUP as an easier, more flexible way to do group operations with DFSORT. Your original "trick" was the inspiration for this new function and we all owe you thanks for that. 8)
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Well, I _________________ Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Development Team (IBM)
Specialties: JOINKEYS, FINDREP, WHEN=GROUP, ICETOOL, Symbols, Migration
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