Apologies for the typo, the Syncsort option is DYNALLOC, not DYNALOC. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Farley, Peter Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2023 12:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DFSORT maximum input records
Not sure if DFSORT has an equivalent option, but Syncsort has a parameter DYNALOC that can change the maximum number of SORTWKnn DD's it will allocate. Our local Syncsort default is 64, but for really big sorts (when we get the Syncsort equivalent "too big to sort" message, which says "SORT CAPACITY EXCEEDED") we use DYNALOC(SYSDA,255). HTH Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Charles Hardee Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2023 11:43 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: DFSORT maximum input records Hello Listers, I've searched the IBM-MAIN archives and found nothing to help me so I thought I'd better ask the question. I am trying to sort roughly 4295217295, records using DFSORT. DFSORT issues a message that I have exceeded the sort input record maximum. It appears that this maximum is 4294967295. Since this is a program calling sort internally, and does so several times, I cannot do the "normal" thing of splitting the file down into smaller files, sort them, then merge them back together. Anyone have any thoughts on this? Thanks, Chuck -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
