Maximum input records for DFSORT is infinity, *except* some options like
EQUALS. For EQUALS the maximum is 4Gi records (means 2**32).
Sometimes it is good idea to change SORT to MERGE.
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of
Charles Hardee
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2023 11:43 AM
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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
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