Just an fyi, that in DFDORT V1R13 we added a unit count of 1 to the dynamic allocation parameters to override any data class specification of a unit count.
Have a nice day, Dave Betten DFSMS Performance Engineer IBM Corporation email: [email protected] 1-301-240-3809 DFSORT/MVSontheweb at http://www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort/ IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on 09/12/2012 09:17:29 AM: > From: "Staller, Allan" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected], > Date: 09/12/2012 09:18 AM > Subject: Re: DFSORT use EXTENDED FORMAT for SORTWKnn DDs? > Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> > > I concur w/all that Lizette has said. I would like to add that my > DATACLAS routine handle restriction of SORTWKxx to one volume. > > HTH, > > <snip> > You might want to look at Guarantee space in the SMS definitions. > > And as others have pointed out - SORTWKxx cannot use more than one volume. > So I am not sure that extended will help unless it is all on one volume. > > So from a basic SAM perspective - 15 xtents on the secondary space > allocation is probably all it will take. > > So how to handle the issue > 1) Change your sort parms for Dynamic allocation to be 32 or some > number of choosing. It will only allocate what it needs. > 2) Make sure the SORTWKxx in the ACS code is large enough for > comfort (Dataclas). > 3) The section quoted is not about SORTWKxx but SORTIN/SORTOUT > > ...Remainder snipped > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
