On 2015-09-10, at 10:06, Sri h Kolusu wrote:

> Martin,
> 
> The default is Half the LRECL for VLR processing and you are remembering 
> it correctly. :) However I suggest that you run the STATS operator to find 
> the avg/min/max lrecl's 
> 
>> From: Martin Packer
>> Date: 09/10/2015 08:51 AM
>> 
>> Not sure whether it's relevant but AVGRLEN is another thing you can use to 
>> help DFSORT do the calculations, I seem to recall. (Someone long ago once 
>> said for Variable-Length the default is half the LRECL.)
>> 
>> 
>>>> If any kind of SORT E15/E35 exits are being used where data is being 
>> passed to SORT(internal COBOL sort, DB2 utilities) and no FILESZ or a 
>> record count is being passed, OR reading from a unix path name, then SORT 
>> will fail miserably dynamically allocating sortwork, or will at least use 
>> the default dynamic allocation specified in your ICEOPTS, which may or may 
>> not be sufficient.
>> 
>> Dave Jousma,
>>  
If tye UNIX path name refers to a regular file, stat() should provide
considerable guidance.  For a character special file such as a pipe,
not so much.  Does DFSORT use stat() in this way?  Does DFSORT support
a character special file as SORTIN?

-- gil

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