The INPFIL control statement, which is used by other IBM sort programs, is accepted but not processed. However, control statement errors can result from continuation of an INPFIL statement. The information contained in the INPFIL statement for other IBM sort programs is supplied to DFSORT with DD statements.

Because DFSORT uses the OPTION control statement, OPTION control statements in any job streams from other IBM sort programs cause DFSORT to terminate unless the parameters from the other program conform to the DFSORT OPTION control statement parameters.