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Technical Information for OS/390

Application name and release OS/390
Release
Support
SMP/E
Installable
Must be Installed
in the Same Zone
as OS/390
Supplies an
Installation
Verification
Procedure
Requires
OS/390
Recustomization
(See Key below)
Currently
Installed in
a customer
production
environment
Year
2000
ready
SyncSort MVS
3.7
V2R4 Yes Yes No Yes Note 1 Yes Yes
V2R5 Yes Yes No Yes Note 1 Yes Yes
V2R6 Yes Yes No Yes Note 1 Yes Yes
V2R7 Yes Yes No Yes Note 1 Yes Yes
V2R8 Yes Yes No Yes Note 1 Yes Yes
V2R9 Yes Yes No Yes Note 1 Yes Yes
V2R10 Yes Yes No Yes Note 1 Yes Yes
Notes:
  • 1. SyncSort MVS requires an SVC.
  • 2. For support of tape data set blocksizes >32K with V2R10, EW5330 is required.
PROC SYNCSORT
2.1
2.2
V2R4 Yes Yes No No No Yes Yes
V2R5 Yes Yes No No No Yes Yes
V2R6 Yes Yes No No No Yes Yes
V2R7 Yes Yes No No No Yes Yes
V2R8 Yes Yes No No No Yes Yes
V2R9 Yes Yes No No No Yes Yes
V2R10 Yes Yes No No No Yes Yes
Notes:
PipeSort
1.1
V2R4 Yes No No No No Yes Yes
V2R5 Yes No No No No Yes Yes
V2R6 Yes No No No No Yes Yes
V2R7 Yes No No No No Yes Yes
V2R8 Yes No No No No Yes Yes
V2R9 Yes No No No No Yes Yes
V2R10 Yes No No No No Yes Yes
Notes:
Visual SyncSort
1.0
V2R4 Yes Yes No No No Unknown Yes
V2R5 Yes Yes No No No Unknown Yes
V2R6 Yes Yes No No No Yes Yes
V2R7 Yes Yes No No No Unknown Yes
V2R8 Yes Yes No No No Yes Yes
V2R9 Yes Yes No No No Unknown Yes
V2R10 Yes Yes No No No Yes Yes

OS/390 recustomization key

One or more of these may apply:

A=Uses concatenated PARMLIB, not SYS1.PARMLIB
B=No modules in OS/390 system libraries or DLIBs
C=Uses dynamic exits