Hi Frank/List, My client has some very big SORT jobs. When a few run at the the same time, the page DS USE% increases (demanding paging). Q1- How do I make sure BIG sort jobs don't use too many frames, when they are hard to get? Q2- Given the sort options we use, is it true that SORT will use TMAXLIM size of storage, then if data is too big, it will increase the storage use to max of DSA size? So it never goes over DSA size? Q3- If I get ICE199I 0 MEMORY OBJECT STORAGE USED = 3463M BYTES it means 3.4GB of data was sorted in memory, right? Q4- If YES to both Q2/Q3, then how is 3GB of data is sorted in 64M of memory (our DSA) If, not, how does it work? Q5- We use SIZE=MAX, but the job has SIZE=32259547 (it can be different for another run). Is this because the size of data being sorted determines the actual SIZE used? TIA, Rez Our sort option are: MODULE ICEAM1 - - - - - - - - - - - ARESALL 0 ARESINV NOT APPLICABLE - - - - - - - - - - - DSA 64 - - - - - - - - - - - DYNALOC (SYSALLDA,3) * (SYSDA,4) - - - - - - - - - - - EXPMAX MAX EXPOLD MAX EXPRES 0 - - - - - - - - - - - HIPRMAX OPTIMAL - - - - - - - - - - - MAXLIM 1048576 MINLIM 450560 MOSIZE MAX - - - - - - - - - - - OVERRGN 65536 RESALL 4096 RESET YES RESINV NOT APPLICABLE - - - - - - - - - - SIZE MAX - - - - - - - - - - TMAXLIM 6291456 - - - - - - - - - - VIO NO
joblog had: ICE193I 0 ICEAM1 ENVIRONMENT IN EFFECT - ICEAM1 INSTALLATION MODULE SELECTED ICE088I 5 PAK328 .SORT305 . , INPUT LRECL = 650, BLKSIZE = 27950, TYPE = FB ICE093I 0 MAIN STORAGE = (MAX,32259547,32259547) ICE156I 0 MAIN STORAGE ABOVE 16MB = (32122707,32122707) ICE127I 0 OPTIONS: OVFLO=RC0 ,PAD=RC0 ,TRUNC=RC0 ,SPANINC=RC16,VLSCMP=N,SZERO=Y,RESET=Y,VSAMEMT=Y,DYNSPC=256 ICE128I 0 OPTIONS: SIZE=32259547,MAXLIM=1048576,MINLIM=450560,EQUALS=N,LIST=Y,ERET=AB END,MS GDDN=SYSOUT ICE129I 0 OPTIONS: VIO=N,RESDNT=ALL ,SMF=NO ,WRKSEC=Y,OUTSEC=Y,VERIFY=N,CHALT=N,DYNALOC= (SCRATCH ,004),ABCODE=MSG ICE130I 0 OPTIONS: RESALL=4096,RESINV=0,SVC=109 ,CHECK=N,WRKREL=Y,OUTREL=Y,CKPT=N,STIMER=Y,COBEXIT=COB2 ICE131I 0 OPTIONS: TMAXLIM=6291456,ARESALL=0,ARESINV=0,OVERRGN=65536,CINV=Y,CFW=Y,DS A=64 ICE132I 0 OPTIONS: VLSHRT=N,ZDPRINT=Y,IEXIT=N,TEXIT=N,LISTX=N,EFS=NONE ,EXITCK=S,PARMDDN=DFSPARM ,FSZEST=N ICE133I 0 OPTIONS: HIPRMAX=OPTIMAL,DSPSIZE=MAX ,ODMAXBF=0,SOLRF=Y,VLLONG=N,VSAMIO=N,MOSIZE=MAX ICE235I 0 OPTIONS: NULLOUT=RC0 ICE084I 0 EXCP ACCESS METHOD USED FOR SORTOUT ICE084I 0 EXCP ACCESS METHOD USED FOR SORTIN ICE750I 0 DC 3576062750 TC 0 CS DSVVV KSZ 36 VSZ 36 ICE752I 0 FSZ=5501635 RC IGN=0 E AVG=652 0 WSP=4658983 C DYN=0 0 ICE751I 1 BA-K22788 BB-K24705 BC-K24705 E8-K90013 ICE090I 0 OUTPUT LRECL = 650, BLKSIZE = 27950, TYPE = FB (SDB) ICE080I 0 IN MAIN STORAGE SORT ICE055I 0 INSERT 0, DELETE 0 ICE054I 0 RECORDS - IN: 5501623, OUT: 5501623 ICE134I 0 NUMBER OF BYTES SORTED: 3576054950 ICE165I 0 TOTAL WORK DATA SET TRACKS ALLOCATED: 0 , TRACKS USED: 0 ICE199I 0 MEMORY OBJECT STORAGE USED = 3463M BYTES ICE180I 0 HIPERSPACE STORAGE USED = 0K BYTES ICE188I 0 DATA SPACE STORAGE USED = 0K BYTES ICE052I 0 END OF DFSORT ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html