I have 8 3390-9 DASD that are strictly for temp space. 99% of the time they are completely empty, as was the case when I was running this as there is no one else on the system right now.
I'll try using a bigger number. On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Ulrich Krueger <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- The postings on this site are my own and don’t necessarily represent Mainline’s positions or opinions Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
