Thanks. I don't know how my search missed that. So my options in the case causing me problems (internal sort in application which does not specify a SIZE= or FILEZS=), the only thing I can do is tell the programmer to use SORTWKnn DDs and allocate enough space (this SORT failed on a 10.5 million record input) or increase the DYNSPC parameter in DFSORT. I don't really want to do the latter.
-- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets® 9151 Boulevard 26 • N. Richland Hills • TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone • john.mck...@healthmarkets.com • www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets® is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. –The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company®, Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Norbert Friemel > Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 9:15 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: DFSORT use EXTENDED FORMAT for SORTWKnn DDs? > > On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 08:57:19 -0500, McKown, John wrote: > > > > >Note the "(up to 15 extents)" on the last line. > >http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi- > bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/ice1ct20/2.9 > >Is talking about using Extended Format for superior I/O on INPUT and > OUTPUT data sets, but does not address using it in SORTWKnn DD > statements. > > http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi- > bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/ICE1CA00/2.4.4.5 > > "Disk Work Data Set Coding Notes > Data sets must be physical sequential; they cannot be partitioned or > extended format." > > > Norbert Friemel > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
