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zavedali85
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Is sorting done through JCL is faster as comapred to sorting done with cobol program using input procedures.
While doing sorting through Cobol for a file that contains around 1 million records takes about 1-2 minutes,would sorting the same through JCL will reduce the turn aroung time? |
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expat
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Why don't you try it out yourself and see what happens.
How can we say yes/no with zero knowledge of the workload processed on a CPU that we have no access to. |
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Binop B
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hi zavedali,
i guess the JCL would be a better option.. atleast this is the input i got from my previous client in which they told they preferred JCL sort to COBOL sort as JCL sort is more efficient than COBOL.
But as expat suggested for the data u have... its better u itself try it out..  |
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Robert Sample
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| Considering COBOL invokes the system sort anyway, unless you are doing some really complicated things in your INPUT PROCEDURE section, the COBOL SORT verb should not use any more -- or less -- time than doing the same sort in JCL. |
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Frank Yaeger
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If the COBOL program has FASTSRT in effect for the input and output data sets, then DFSORT reads and writes the data sets directly and there should be no difference. If the COBOL program does not have FASTSRT in effect, then the COBOL program reads and writes the data sets rather than DFSORT, whereas with a direct invocation of DFSORT, DFSORT reads and writes the data sets. This can make a difference since DFSORT's I/O and buffering is more efficient than COBOL's. Of course, that only matters if a direct invocation of DFSORT can be used to do the same thing the COBOL program does.
For some more information, see:
publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/ICE1CT10/6.0?DT=20080528173317 |
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