Re: Sort in a multitasking address space

2019-11-13 Thread Sri h Kolusu
> Won't DFSORT manage the SORTWORKs? Gil/John, Dave Betten already answered the question below. "You use SORTDD= in the parameter lists to pass a separate prefix for each sort. For example you might pass SORTDD=SRT1 for the first one, SORDD=SRT2 for the second, etc. That way each will allocate

Re: Sort in a multitasking address space

2019-11-13 Thread John McKown
On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 1:21 PM Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 12:43:26 -0600, John McKown wrote: > >On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 12:18 PM Tom Marchant wrote: > > > >> We have a multitasking address space in which we would like to > >>

Re: Sort in a multitasking address space

2019-11-12 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 12:43:26 -0600, John McKown wrote: >On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 12:18 PM Tom Marchant wrote: > >> We have a multitasking address space in which we would like to >> call sort to sort somewhere around a half a million entries. >> There is a possibility that more than one task might

Re: Sort in a multitasking address space

2019-11-12 Thread David Betten
and Systems Performance IBM Corporation email: bet...@us.ibm.com IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 11/12/2019 01:43:26 PM: > From: John McKown > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Date: 11/12/2019 01:44 PM > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Sort in a multitasking address space > Sent by

Re: Sort in a multitasking address space

2019-11-12 Thread John McKown
On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 12:18 PM Tom Marchant < 000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > We have a multitasking address space in which we would like to > call sort to sort somewhere around a half a million entries. > There is a possibility that more than one task might need to >

Re: Sort in a multitasking address space

2019-11-12 Thread Seymour J Metz
If you provide non-conflicting ddname lists then I would expect it to work, storage permitting. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Tom Marchant

Re: Sort in a multitasking address space

2019-11-12 Thread Martin Packer
30 years ago I wrote something that ATTACHed multiple TCBs, each calling ICEMAN. This worked fine but I needed to 1) Create the control cards appropriately 2) Make sure there weren't any data set collisions In fact my use case was read the same SORTIN and sort it different ways - in parallel.