In addition to all the other responses you got regarding DynAlloc, I wanted to add the nudge that DFSORT only uses the **1st** extent in SortWk DD statements. Thus, SPACE=(CYL,(3335,3335)) is the same as SPACE=(CYL,3335) which, in your example, only got you 10*'3335 cylinders or the equivalent to 10 mod-3s. So you'd need to have 27 DD statements to use your entire pool.
--------> signature = 6 lines follows <-------- Neil Duffee, Joe Sysprog, uOttawa, Ottawa, Ont, Canada telephone:1 613 562 5800 x4585 fax:1 613 562 5161 mailto:NDuffee of uOttawa.ca http:/ /aix1.uOttawa.ca/ ~nduffee "How *do* you plan for something like that?" Guardian Bob, Reboot "For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism." "Systems Programming: Guilty, until proven innocent" John Norgauer 2004 -----Original Message----- From: Mark Pace [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: April 27, 2012 08:43 Subject: Confused on DFSORT SORTWK Trying to sort a fairly large RMF data file. 20,000 + cylinders. I keep running out of SORTWK space. I have 9 3390-9 volumes in my SMS temporary storage pool. But I just noticed that no matter how many SORTWKxx DDs I add it only allocates file on the first 5 temp storage volumes. Anyone have an idea how I make DFSORT use more volumes? //SORTWK01 DD DISP=(NEW,DELETE),UNIT=SYSDA,SPACE=(CYL,(3335,3335)) [snip] ICE046A E SORT CAPACITY EXCEEDED - RECORD COUNT 2459859 [snip] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
