Try specifying one a sortwrk dd with space=(cyl,(1,1) by do so sort should not use dynamic allocation. Please let me know your results.
Regards Otto H Schumacher Transaction and Database Systems - CICS Specialist U. S. Mainframe HP Enterprise Services Telephone +1 864 987 1417 MobileĀ +1 864 569 5338 Email [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Staffan Tylen Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 4:12 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Avoiding DFSORT dynamic allocatoin, was: Abend S0C4 in an internal sort Yes, unfortunately, because the records are dynamically created and could not be put in a single file for a one-time sort. Why should life be simple? :) I still find it strange that there is no way to prevent dynamic allocation 100%, even though the documentation hints about ways to do so, for example DYNALLOC=OFF,FILESZ=U0,DSPSIZE=0. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

