Carlos Feldman wrote:
Hi everyone:
I'm working with PL/I under MUSIC/SP under HERCULES simulator.
I want to sort a file, by several keys, But MUSIC Documentation says, the
standard IBM libraries , still used today,PLISRTX are not available under
music and that one can use SORT,MNSORT or DSORT.
Thing is SORT is just one key sort subroutine , MNSORT, is an user interfase
multiple key application and DSORT a multiple key subroutine, that can be
called from FORTRAN, COBOL OR PL/I. But DSORT is missing in MUSIC.
I managed to write a rexx script to call MNSORT, send parameters, but this
is not possible from within PLI(f), with no spawn capability.
I found thar PLISORTX and DSORT were part of the original MVS for IBM/360,
but it is beyond my means to rebuild that libraries from source code.
Does anyone know if it's possible to get those losto sort libraries and
install them in MUSIC ?
On 18 February 2011, Michael Short made this announcement on the
h390-music@... and musicspdemo@... mailing lists:
The program OS/360 Sort/Merge (360-SM-023) is now available for MUSIC. It
was built from source from
Jay Moseley's site with no source changes. The package is in the file
section of H390-MUSIC@... as OSSORT.ZIPX.
After downloading the Zip file and unzipping, read the file OSSORT.DOc for
installation and operation.
I've test most of the install instructions, but please let me know if there
are any errors. The same thing applies after
it has been loaded.
Michael Short
I haven't seen any postings from Michael in quite a long time and I don't
know if he is on this mailing list or if he is still active with MUSIC.
Around the time of his announcement, I downloaded OSSORT.ZIPX and tried to
get it working on the MUSIC/SP demo system. As far as I recall, I needed
some extra files that I didn't have and I think I managed to get it working
eventually with help from Michael.
I don't know if the package Michael made available is the same as SORT,
MNSORT or DSORT or different to all three. If the package Michael made
available would be useful to you, I can try to recreate the steps I took
with Michael's help to try to make it work on MUSIC.
Regards,
Peter Coghlan.
