Mark, How much space do you _really_ have available in all your work - disks? How much junk is cluttering up the space? Are all volumes enabled and available for allocation? Try allocating more than 8 SORTWKs (don't go overboard, but (IIRC) you can allocate as many as 255 SORTWKs if needed) so that SORT can allocate more but smaller datasets.
Regards, Ulrich Krueger -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Pace Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 9:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Confused on DFSORT SORTWK I want to switch to dynamic allocation but have no luck making this work. I used 8 SORTWKxx files to sort this file. So now I want to try it with dynamic and get the following. 1 - CONTROL STATEMENTS FOR 5694-A01, Z/OS DFSORT V1R12 - 12:43 ON FRI APR 27, 2012 - OPTION DYNALLOC=(SYSDA,8) RESOURCES WERE UNAVAILABLE FOR DYNAMIC ALLOCATION OF WORK DATA SETS (970C) FWK=(0,0) SWK=(7,1039528) TWK=(0,0) RWK=(0,0) TOTAL=(7,1039528) BLK=56664 ATTEMPTED TO ALLOCATE 80250MB OF DISK WORK SPACE ON 8 WORK DATA SETS SUCCESSFULLY ALLOCATED 56175MB OF DISK WORK SPACE ON 7 WORK DATA SETS <remainder clipped> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
