**CORRECTION** - sorry, that's 4,369 cylinders or 65,535 tracks.... On Mon, 3 Jul 2023 11:13:03 -0500, Scott Barry <[email protected]> wrote:
>Both DFSORT and SYNCSORT make use of primary and secondary space allocations >(up to the z/OS legacy 16 extents per volume) but for only the first volume - >there is not VOLADD processing taken. > >Also, if SORTWKxx DDs are hardcoded, then you must also have the DSNTYPE=LARGE >(either explicit or via DATACLAS) to get past the again-legacy 1439 cylinders >(equlvalent), again but only for the first-volume and without VOLADD. > >Otherwise if you omit SORTWKxx DDs and allow the host sort package to do its >best to estimate input data records/size volume, then you automatically get >DSNTYPE=LARGE via dynamic allocation means. > >Scott Barry >SBBTech LLC > >Supplemental IBM.COM DFSORT Link: >https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=guide-using-work-space > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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
