Paul Gilmartin wrote: >>I hope Binaymin Dissen can use your suggestion. >Most of the suggestions don't address Binyamin's concern with the limit on >concatenation size.
Sheesh Paul! Thats a good catch! I wish I could steal your precious brain. ;-D Binaymin Dissen, I have reread all the posts for this thread. Does it matter that when you are exceeding the concatenation size limit or not? In other words, Does it matter that you have say 255 DSN in one SORT input and another set of say 100 DSN in another? Will that influence your DFSORT processing of all the contents of that records from those 255 and more DSN? Alternatively, could you get a LISTC of all your datasets and write out a REXX program or use the DFSORT example to handle the IDCAMS output. From that list of datasets, group the datasets in groups of 255 and then MOD (with IEBGENER or DFSORT?) all of the contents into a few datasets for DFSORT to handle the contents? Could you be kind to tell us what you expect in the input? or what you expect from the output? If all else fails, I could suggest that you sort in groups of 255 DSN and then MOD each sort output into ONE output and then finally do a final sort? Messy of course, but I can't think of an easy way to overcome that stupid limit of the concatenation. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
