I think it's tape sort WORK data sets that aren't supported - judging by others' contributions to this thread.
Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker From: Ravi Gaur <gaur.ravi2...@gmail.com> To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu, Date: 09/03/2013 10:44 AM Subject: Re: Syncsort v1.4 doesn't support Tape sorting - Need help ! Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu> Roger, What you mean by it's not supported? could you please extend on it... We running with syncsort 1.4.1 version and tried below simple JCL to sort where input and output both dataset are tape and it worked ok... //SHOWDEF EXEC PGM=ICETOOL,REGION=0M //TOOLMSG DD SYSOUT=* //IN1 DD DISP=SHR,DSN=NBKEODV.GDG.S1X09.TEST.G0008V00 //OUT1 DD DSN=NBKEODV.GDG.S1X09.TEST(+1), // DISP=(NEW,CATLG),UNIT=TAPE //DFSMSG DD SYSOUT=* //LIST1 DD SYSOUT=* //TOOLIN DD * COPY FROM(IN1) TO(OUT1) USING(CTL1) /* //CTL1CNTL DD * OPTION VLSHRT SORT FIELDS=(1,121,CH,A) NODUPS /* 04.41.07 JOB08934 ---- TUESDAY, 03 SEP 2013 ---- 04.41.07 JOB08934 IRR010I USERID NBKEODV IS ASSIGNED TO THIS JOB. 04.41.07 JOB08934 ICH70001I NBKEODV LAST ACCESS AT 04:39:17 ON TUESDAY, SEPTEM 04.41.07 JOB08934 $HASP373 NBKEODVT STARTED - WLM INIT - SRVCLASS WLMDEVMD - S 04.41.07 JOB08934 NBUSI05I - REGION SET: 8,300KB BELOW; 272MB ABOVE; MEMLIM 04.41.07 JOB08934 IEF403I NBKEODVT - STARTED - TIME=04.41.07 04.41.07 JOB08934 IEF233A M 6F78,PRIVAT,SL,NBKEODVT,SHOWDEF, 770 770 NBKEODV.GDG.S1X09.TEST.G0011V00 04.41.08 JOB08934 IECTMS9 6F78,E23720,NBKEODVT,OUT1 ,CATALOG ,00001,X09.TE 04.41.08 JOB08934 IEC705I TAPE ON 6F78,E23720,SL,COMP,NBKEODVT,SHOWDEF,NBKEODV. 04.41.12 JOB08934 IEC205I OUT1,NBKEODVT,SHOWDEF,FILESEQ=1, COMPLETE VOLUME LIST 773 DSN=NBKEODV.GDG.S1X09.TEST.G0011V00,VOLS=E23720,TOTALBLOCKS=1 04.41.12 JOB08934 IEF234E K 6F78,E23720,PVT,NBKEODVT,SHOWDEF 04.41.12 JOB08934 *IEFACTRT* J=NBKEODVT,S=(001, .SHOWDEF ),RCODE=0000 04.41.12 JOB08934 IEF196I *IEFACTRT* J=NBKEODVT,S=(001, .SHOWDEF ),RCODE 04.41.12 JOB08934 IEF404I NBKEODVT - ENDED - TIME=04.41.12 04.41.12 JOB08934 $HASP395 NBKEODVT ENDED OPTION VLSHRT SORT FIELDS=(1,121,CH,A) NODUPS PARMLIST : OPTION RESINV=0,ARESINV=0,MSGDDN=DFSMSG,SORTIN=IN1,SORTOUT=OUT1,SORTDD=CTL1,COP WER428I CALLER-PROVIDED IDENTIFIER IS "0001" WER276B SYSDIAG= 53406, 816556, 816556, 1604325 WER164B 8,876K BYTES OF VIRTUAL STORAGE AVAILABLE, MAX REQUESTED, WER164B 0 BYTES RESERVE REQUESTED, 6,116K BYTES USED WER146B 20K BYTES OF EMERGENCY SPACE ALLOCATED WER108I IN1 : RECFM=FBA ; LRECL= 121; BLKSIZE= 121 WER073I IN1 : DSNAME=NBKEODV.GDG.S1X09.TEST.G0008V00 WER110I OUT1 : RECFM=FBA ; LRECL= 121; BLKSIZE= 32670 WER074I OUT1 : DSNAME=NBKEODV.GDG.S1X09.TEST.G0011V00 WER410B 7,848K BYTES OF VIRTUAL STORAGE AVAILABLE ABOVE THE 16MEG LINE, WER410B 0 BYTES RESERVE REQUESTED, 6,008K BYTES USED WER211B SYNCSMF CALLED BY SYNCSORT; RC=0000 WER449I SYNCSORT GLOBAL DSM SUBSYSTEM ACTIVE WER416B IN1 : EXCP'S=10,UNIT=3390,DEV=C988,CHP=(1727FBFC3754EAEB,1),VOL=1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
