Does CA Common Services depend on SYNCSORT

Products

• CIS
• COMMON SERVICES FOR Z/OS
• 90S SERVICES
• DATABASE MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS FOR DB2 FOR Z/OS
• COMMON PRODUCT SERVICES COMPONENT
• Common Services
• Datacom/AD
• CA ECOMETER SERVER COMPONENT FOC
• Easytrieve Report Generator for Common Services
• INFOCAI MAINTENANCE
• IPC
• UNICENTER JCLCHECK COMMON COMPONENT
• Mainframe VM Product Manager
• CHORUS SOFTWARE MANAGER
• CA ON DEMAND PORTAL
• CA Service Desk Manager - Unified Self Service
• PAM CLIENT FOR LINUX ON MAINFRAME
• MAINFRAME CONNECTOR FOR LINUX ON MAINFRAME
• GRAPHICAL MANAGEMENT INTERFACE
• WEB ADMINISTRATOR FOR TOP SECRET
• Xpertware
• Compress Data Compression for MVS
• Compress Data Compression for Fujitsu

Issue/Introduction

Customer run CA Common Services on z/OS v2.1/v2.2 with SYNCSORT rather than IBM DFSORT.
They are going to upgrade the SYNCSORT to v2.1 from v1.4.

Does this our product use the SYNCSORT internally/externally ?
Are the any influence for the product regarding the upgrading?
Are the any consider regarding the SYSNSORT upgrading?

Environment

Release: CA90SV00200-14.1-Common Services-for z/OS
Component:

Resolution

No,  CA Common Services doesn't depend on SORT Version.