Peter Farley wrote on 11/10/2005 09:21:25 AM: > Question: Why are you still coding SORTWKnn statements at all? Modern > versions of SORT (whether DFSORT or SYNCSORT) will automatically dynamically > allocate whatever SORTWK's they need whenever they need them (which isn't > nearly as often as in prior eras). And they do a much better job than we > ever could in deciding how many SORTWK's and how much space for each SORTWK > they need to sort or merge your data. > > Just Say No. Remove all SORTWKnn stetements whenever you touch the JCL > and/or the PROC, and make your life simpler.
Or use DFSORT's DYNAUTO=IGNWKDD installation option which will tells DFSORT to automatically deallocate any JCL SORTWKdd DD statements it finds at run-time and use dynamically allocated work data sets instead. That way, you can remove the SORTWKdd DD statements (or not) whenever you get around to it. If you use DYNAUTO=IGNWKDD and want to keep JCL SORTWKdd DD statements for specific jobs, you can add the following just to those jobs: //DFSPARM DD * OPTION USEWKDD /* Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Team (IBM) Specialties: ICETOOL, IFTHEN, OVERLAY, Symbols, Migration => DFSORT/MVS is on the Web at http://www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
