Jerry Bergman on IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on 03/26/2012 09:49:24 AM: > We recently upgraded from 1.9 to 1.11. It went well, but now several > of our production jobs are dying with ICE406A - Sort Capacity > Exceeded. The JCL has 3 sortwork DDs with an allocation of CYL(1,1) > or (2,1). Quite frankly I'm surprised they ever worked. When I tell > the application folks they need to follow the recommendation from > the doc for ICE046A, namely increase their sortwork size, their > response is that I need to set some parameter so they don't have to > change their JCL and if I ask someone will surely know what that > parameter is and tell me. So I am asking.
>I need to set some parameter so they don't have to change their JCL Consider setting the DFSORT installation option DYNAUTO=IGNWKDD (via an ICEPRMxx member). This would tell DFSORT to deallocate any SORTWKdd DD data sets and use dynamically allocated work data sets instead, which we recommend. For more details, see the DFSORT books at: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=114&uid=isg3T7000080 Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Development Team (IBM) - [email protected] Specialties: JOINKEYS, FINDREP, WHEN=GROUP, ICETOOL, Symbols, Migration => DFSORT/MVS is on the Web at http://www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
