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Re: Sorting

Jim Sloan wrote a series of articles back in the 90's on this
very subject. FMTDTA won hands down in most cases.

Opnqryf does well in "certain" situations but requires a great
deal more screwing around to get a pretty simple solution.

I vote for "leave it alone".

IBM is not very likely to remove one of the "core" utilities
that has been around for quite a while.

Paul Nelson wrote:
By the way, I remember either John Sears or Jim Sloan (ex IBM'ers) stating
that if done properly, FMTDTA works just as well if not better than OPNQRYF.
The guys in the lab ought to know. :-))

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