How to add external sort parameters

Products

• Easytrieve Report Generator

Issue/Introduction

How can sort options to optimize performance or specify functions be passed to an external sort utility (e.g. CA-SORT, DFSORT, SYNCSORT) which will be invoked during Easytrieve program execution?

 

Environment

Easytrieve Plus Report Generator, release 6.4

Resolution

Add DD statement SORTCNTL (for CA-SORT) or DFSPARM (for DFSORT and SYNCSORT) to the  Easytrieve JCL to pass information for the extra sort parameters. This will enable the sort utility to run with these specific parameters.

For example with DFSORT:

//DFSPARM DD * 
EQUALS 
/* 

For example with CA-SORT:

//SORTCNTL DD * 
EQUALS 
/*