XSORT

XSORT 2 is a component of the XFRAME family, whose functionality is equivalent to that of the IBM DFSORT utility. It maintains the same syntax and offers the same services as its mainframe counterpart.

It offers all the capabilities of its precedessor (XSORT version 1 release 6), plus new options. Furthermore, new functionalities to handle UNIX native file in an easier way have been deployed with XSORT 2.

Files accessed by XSORT 2 can be flat UNIX files, as sequential and line sequential data files, and files managed by the XVSAM product, as KSDS, ESDS and RRDS data files.

The product itself is composed by the executable xsort.

Requirements

XSORT 2 is deployed since XFRAME 3.3.18.

What's new

The most important new features that XSORT 2 provides are: