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JCL Invoked SORT Calling COBOL User Exits from STEPLIB

CA Compress ensures proper processing of PST data sets by SORT and certain other programs by causing the JCL to invoke them transparently through a front-end program that first performs required preprocessing.

If you supply user exits such as E15 and E35 to the JCL invoked SORT through STEPLIB, interfaces like SYNCSORT's SYNCCOB can locate modules in the linklist instead of STEPLIB, and can encounter system 306 abends or other problems. Similar problems can arise when you create compressed sequential data sets with the ORACLE SQLPLUS facility.

If you experience any difficulties with such jobs, copy the CA Compress SORT front end module, ZSURSRTF, into one of the STEPLIB libraries to avoid problems with APF authorization and to ensure that program fetch loads modules from the expected libraries.