On Thu, 12 Jan 2023 10:42:51 -0600 Charles Hardee <[email protected]> wrote:
:>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? 2**32-1 = 4294967295 Just saying. -- Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
