What does a sysin in ICEMAN utility do? what does Sort fields=copy coded in the sysin mean?SCBSM10E EXEC PGM=ICEMAN //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=V //SORTLIB DD DSN=SORT.SORTLIB,DISP=SHR //SORTIN DD DSN=&&CB10AWDS,DISP= (OLD,DELETE) //SORTOUT DD DSN=&&CB10ASRT,DISP= (,PASS),SPACE=(CYL,(2,1),RLSE), // UNIT=TEMP,DCB= (RECFM=FB,LRECL=90,BLKSIZE=0)//SORTWK01 DD UNIT=TEMP,SPACE= (CYL,3,,CONTIG) //SORTWK02 DD UNIT=TEMP,SPACE= (CYL,3,,CONTIG) //SORTWK03 DD UNIT=TEMP,SPACE= (CYL,3,,CONTIG)//SYSIN DD DSN=SYS1.USER.PROCCTL (CB10CSRT),DISP=SHR //*where SYS1.USER.PROCCTL (CB10CSRT) has sort fields=copy

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Enzo

Jul 17th, 2006

This job copy a file named SORTIN to file SORTOUT.
ICEMAN is a SORT program whith a lot of features, SYSIN is the input of control statements.
The control statements "SORT FIELDS=COPY" indicates to ICEMAN to only copy the input statement to the output statement whithout perform any sort.

srilkrishy
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Aug 25th, 2006

Hi,
Just thought of adding few more points.
ICEMAN is the IBM's DFSORT tool.You can use the same name for the SYNCSORT (Product of SYNCINC) as well.
The SYNCSORT guys have created synonims for most of the IBM tools and when the job runs,the syncsort will replace the ICEMAN with it's own tool name.
The important thing to figure out the difference betwee the DFSORT and SYNCSORT are the error messages and the warning messages.
All the SYNCSORT messages will be with WER where as DFSORT will start with I(Not rememberd exactly).
Thank you
Kirshy