Yes I know DFSORT, but many moons ago, we used SYNCSORT's tape sort, which was expressly for this type of problem.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2018 2:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SORTLIB DD [External Email] Let me reiterate. The problem job tries to allocate more DASD work space than *exists* on the system. SORTIN is on tape--multiple files. We have the capability of putting more volumes online temporarily, but this is a major PITA and requires intervention from the Storage boys. I'm hoping that tape SORTWK will get the user over the occasional hump for this ad hoc non-production job. It does not have to perform well. It just has to work. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW robin...@sce.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2018 2:49 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: SORTLIB DD Get rid of SORTLIB DD Get rid of SORTWKnn DD Use dynamic sortwork datasets, optionally set the number of datasets via OPTION DYNALLOC Don't use tapes for sortwork BTW: What is a size of input data? How much space do you have for temp datasets? How much memory can the job use? My €0.02 -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland W dniu 2018-06-05 o 18:31, Jesse 1 Robinson pisze: > We have a DFSORT job that wolfs down enormous amounts of SORTWK space. > It has been exceeding the DASD capacity on the system where it runs, > so we advised the user to point SORTWK to tape instead of DASD. Now it > fails with > > IEC130I SORTLIB DD STATEMENT MISSING > IEF472I CIHM373 STEP010 CIHM373 - COMPLETION CODE - SYSTEM=000 > USER=0063 > > IBM doc indicates the need for SORTLIB with a 'tape sort'. We have no > working example to share with the user. My question: what should DD > SORTLIB point to? SMPE puts load modules into > > SYS1.SORTLIB > SYS1.SICELINK > > Should the user specify only the first one or both? I hate to drag them into > a sysprog guessing game. > > . > . > J.O.Skip Robinson > Southern California Edison Company > Electric Dragon Team Paddler > SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager > 323-715-0595 Mobile > 626-543-6132 Office <===== NEW > robin...@sce.com<mailto:robin...@sce.com> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN FIRST TENNESSEE Confidentiality notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or the employee or agent responsible for delivery of this message to the intended recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this e-mail message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and delete this e-mail message from your computer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN