Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

If you're doing this for back up purposes and don't need to access the data in the sequential (which is the proper term for a "flat" file) data set ("file" should only be used in z/OS when referencing Unix System Services files), you could use DF/DSS (ADRDSSU) to create a back u...

What SORT product do you use? Is the order of the data important? We are using DFSort. I think I am not mistaken when I say this. (How do I verify? ) No the order of data is not important. William, if the order of the data is important what challenges I need to face? And why are you asking that?

If you're doing this for back up purposes and don't need to access the data in the sequential (which is the proper term for a "flat" file) data set ("file" should only be used in z/OS when referencing Unix System Services files), you could use DF/DSS (ADRDSSU) to create a back u...

William Collins wrote:What SORT product do you use? Is the order of the data important?

We are using DFSort. I think I am not mistaken when I say this. (How do I verify? )

No the order of data is not important.

Hi,

I need to copy data of 21 VSAM files to one flat file. Is there some easier way of doing apart from IDCAM REPRO for each file? Please advise.