SORTWKxx are typically temporary and not SMS compression eligible (requires catalog entry to hold the SMS compression attributes).

Michael

At 02:31 PM 4/16/2024, Jousma, David wrote:

Michael,

Yes, thanks.  It is just the sortwk datsets that are the issue.

Dave Jousma
Vice President | Director, Technology Engineering




From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Michael Oujesky <reflect...@oujesky.net>
Date: Tuesday, April 16, 2024 at 3:24 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>
Subject: Re: Anyone exploiting ZEDC?
Food for thought. zEDC is block oriented rather than record oriented (i. e. reads/writes full track blocks on DASD and BLKSIZE become logical (i. e. the size of the buffer used to exchange data with the application)), so any processing that expects


Food for thought.  zEDC is block oriented rather than record oriented

(i.e. reads/writes full track blocks on DASD and BLKSIZE become

logical (i.e. the size of the buffer used to exchange data with the

application)), so any processing that expects to make use of BLKSIZE

to perform physical I/O (random, update, etc) will fail.



Thus DFSORT will have issues for SORTWK datasets, but not

SORTIN/SORTOUT datasets.



Michael



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