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?
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