AFAIK, this cannot be done (easily) without knowing the total number of
records in advance.
You might be able put some logic together using sort exit 15.

HTH,

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does any of you have a recommendation on advising SORT to only take the
last
n records into SORTOUT.

problem is, for STARTREC=xxx you would need to know the resulting total
number in advance.
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