Thank you for answering. The dataset is not sorted first, at least I think we 
don't.
We use OPTION COPY.

//SYSIN     DD *
  OPTION COPY
  OUTFIL FNAMES=SORTOFT1,VTOF,
          OUTREC=(5,1872),
          INCLUDE=(16,2,CH,EQ,C'98')
  OUTFIL FNAMES=SORTOFT2,VTOF,
          OUTREC=(5,1872),
          INCLUDE=(16,2,CH,EQ,C'99')
  OUTFIL FNAMES=SORTOFT3,VTOF,
          OUTREC=(5,1872),
          INCLUDE=(16,2,CH,EQ,C'00')



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                Eric Verwijs 

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-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Sri 
Hari Kolusu
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2024 3:29 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: DFSORT / SORT and value/necessity of FILSZ parameter

>> We run sort splits on large tape datasets, with over a hundred million 
>> records. They get split into 3 separate datasets, depending on the data.
These jobs do not use FILSZ.

Eric,

Does the job SORT the data before split , or is it just splitting with a COPY 
operation to separate datasets ?   As long the tape datasets have a standard 
label and Tape processing software(RMM/CA-1/ICETPEX) is providing the details 
of the dataset, you don't need to code FILSZ parameter.  If your job has 
SORTDIAG DD DUMMY coded, then you can check the ICE905I message.

for example.

ICE905I 1 I : RF=144,LR=340,BLK=17680,BCT=514473

      I       = INPUT (SORTIN OR SORTINXX)

 RF=144       RECFM 128 = X'80' F - FIXED  +
                     16 = X'10' B - BLOCKED

 LR=340       IS THE LRECL OF THE FILE

 BLK=17680    IS THE BLOCKSIZE OF THE DATASET

 BCT=514473   BLOCK COUNT (WILL BE 0 FOR COPY, MERGE OR SORTOUT)


Thanks,
Kolusu
DFSORT Development
IBM Corporation



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