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[anbesivam]

Hi,

Before writing this query, I checked all the post regarding PLISRTA in this forum. But I coudn't get exact answer.

My questions is, is there any difference between CA SORT and PLISRTA?

In my shop, intially they used CA Sort(SRTOPEN,SRTGET & SRTFILL) for sorting internal records. Now we are migrating all the sort programs in to PLISRTA call(As per my knowledge, it uses DFSort).

We are facing diffenence in output in sorting between CA SORT output and PLISRTA output.

[Frank Yaeger]

The difference here seems to be that EQUALS is in effect for CA-SORT, but not for DFSORT. That has nothing to do with PLISRTA. It just means that your site does not have EQUALS=YES as the installation default for DFSORT. You can get what you want by specifying the following in your job:

[anbesivam]

Hi Frank,

You are exactly right. it works if I introduce 'EQUALS' in the PLISTRA parameter.

Other than this, is there any direct matching(Like, if SRTGET,SRTFILL used in CA SORT, we need to use certain parameter to match the same in PLISRTA) between, CA SORT and PLISRTA ? or its depends up on the sort records ?

Thanks.

[Frank Yaeger]

I can't answer your question. I don't know anything about CA-SORT's SRTGET and SRTFILL.
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[anbesivam]

Hi Frank,

Thanks for your response.

I will wait for the response, if any expertise faced this kind of situation and experience on solving this.

Thanks.