On Fri, 13 Jan 2023 16:03:37 +0000, Sri h Kolusu wrote: > >DFSORT calls LE to process locale and convert the keys and Unicode services >for processing UTF-8/16/32 data. > UTF-8 is a variable-length encoding. Is the length of a key field specified in characters or in octets?
>Sort accelerator is NOT compatible with LOCALE. It is listed under >restrictions which is documented here > >https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=works-integrated-accelerator-z-sort > Thanks. I see: Please note that not all sorts would be eligible to use ZSORT. Below is a list of restrictions that will disable ZSORT and will revert to using traditional sorting technique: ... - Unsupported sort fields specified (examples Unicode, Locale, ALTSEQ …) - Unknown file size or file size=0. I suppose there's little to gain by acceleration when file size=0. ... - For variable records, the record length (LRECL) must be greater than 24 Does that mean that for such files the 2**32 limit still applies? Does it suffice to have DCB=LRECL=25 even though no record exceeds 24 bytes in length? Industry-wide jargon uses "stable" where DFSORT uses "EQUAL". Thanks -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
