I hadn't thought of that. Changing parameters in a PARMLIB requires a change control, just like JCL do. We need somehow to monitor when one of these types of jobs (no SIZE= equivalent in an internal SORT) is getting close to exceeding our default SORTWKnn size. Which likely means trying to use the DFSORT SMF information. Which I have not yet looked at to see if it is even possible. The only tools I have to process SMF are: ICETOOL, HLASM, or maybe COBOL <shudder/>. We no longer have SAS. It was judged as too expensive for our company needs.
-- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * [email protected] * 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(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), 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:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Norbert Friemel > Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 10:01 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: DFSORT use EXTENDED FORMAT for SORTWKnn DDs? > > On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:30:19 -0500, McKown, John wrote: > > > 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. > > Or add a DFSPARM-DD-Statement with OPTION FILSZ=E10500000,AVGRLEN=??? > to the job. > http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi- > bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/ice1ca00/2.4.4.9 > > Norbert Friemel > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
