(Reconstructing thread from archive) I read the posts in this thread but deleted them because they were not immediately pertinent to our shop. Then last night I got woke up with a similar problem. The default DYNALLOC setting of 3 was insufficient to complete a sort involving an unusually large input. We got
ICE083A D RESOURCES WERE UNAVAILABLE FOR DYNAMIC ALLOCATION OF WORK DATA SETS (064K) <--------- ICE753I FWK=(0,0) SWK=(0,0) TWK=(0,0) RWK=(0,0) TOTAL=(0,0) BLK=56600 ICE248I ATTEMPTED TO ALLOCATE 19389MB OF DISK WORK SPACE ON 3 WORK DATA SETS ICE249I SUCCESSFULLY ALLOCATED 0MB OF DISK WORK SPACE ON 0 WORK DATA SETS (Last line is probably the world's most disappointing 'success' message ever.) In researching the problem, I read that DFSORT for some time has been capable of using large or extended format data sets so that the 64K limit flagged in ICE083A does not apply. What is required to induce DFSORT to use modern work data sets for dynamic allocation? . . JO.Skip Robinson SCE Infrastructure Technology Services Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@sce.com Just to clarify, DFSORT can cetrainly use more than the 1st extent, it just can't use multiple volumes. As long as DSNTYPE=LARGE is coded on the DD statement, each of the SORTWK DDs should be able to use multiple extents. Since a 3390-9 has a capacity of 10,017 cylinders, you should be able to get 3 extents of 3335 cylinders on each work data set if the volumes are empty. > From: Neil Duffee <nduf...@uottawa.ca> > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu, > Date: 05/01/2012 03:14 PM > Subject: Re: Confused on DFSORT SORTWK > Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu> > > In addition to all the other responses you got regarding DynAlloc, I > wanted to add the nudge that DFSORT only uses the **1st** extent in > SortWk DD statements. Thus, SPACE=(CYL,(3335,3335)) is the same as > SPACE=(CYL,3335) which, in your example, only got you 10*'3335 > cylinders or the equivalent to 10 mod-3s. So you'd need to have 27 > DD statements to use your entire pool. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
