Yes, you are right. We are looking for a common proc (well, it is common
per application team - we have 7 major teams). Once we get done going
through this exercise, we will see what makes sense to update
installation defaults - that is a good idea!
Now, for the one big job - the COBOL program is releasing records to the
sort, and their intention is to use the common DFSPARM like I showed,
but then to concatenate another line there with the FILSZ=E### value.
This way, they don't need to specify everything again, and can focus on
only the parameter they need.
Is there some formula for the DYNSPC setting? the manual had a table,
but it said it was showing a value for 6000-byte records...that doesn't
sound overly useful. And based on what you said, this is primary
allocations--is there a different setting for secondary allocation? So
for example, If I had my SORTWKxx file defined as CYL(4000,1000) - which
might be too high a primary as you said - How can I convert that sort of
allocation to DYNSPC settings? It sounds like that would be a crucial
setting for my common parameters to be successful.
Thank you and best regards,
Billy Ashton
------ Original Message ------
From "Sri h Kolusu" <[email protected]>
To [email protected]
Date 7/6/2023 12:05:52 PM
Subject Re: SORTWK space usage
One question they asked me, about our common SORT proc:
Billy,
Common SORT proc? Does that mean every SORT gets that override? If that is
the intention, why not update the Installation defaults with those overrides?
You can use PARMLIB member and update for both ICEAM1 (JCL Invocations) ICEAM2
(Program invoked) environments.
Is it acceptable to code this DFSPARM data in a single PDS member, and then
let it be the default for all our SORT calls? Is there any potential problem
with using this everywhere?
Billy,
It looks good, but I just don't see the FILSZ parm. I remember you mentioning
that a COBOL program is passing the records to DFSORT. The DYNSPC=768 would
give you 1068 cylinders as primary space.
Thanks,
Kolusu
DFSORT Development
IBM Corporation
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