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Hi All,

I have four VSAM files which are identical in terms of allocation and attributes. I want to sort all these VSAM files into a single flat file, basically just concatenating all the VSAM files.

I did look at several sites before posting it and tried out several things , nothing did work.



I did try using for multiple input VSAM files and got error message stating SORTIN statement missing.

Request someone to kindly help me out.

Thanks,

What version of SyncSort do you have?

We have SYNCSORT 1.4.1.0R at our site.

See this thread.

Thank you Akatsukami. so it does signify that we can't concatenate multiple VSAM datasets.

There is a "space" before DISP. That won't work.
SORTIN DD DSN=VSAM1.FILE, DISP=SHR

ibmmf4u wrote:Thank you Akatsukami. so it does signify that we can't concatenate multiple VSAM datasets.

That is so, although you can do a pseudo-concatenation through Syncsort by using MULTIIN.