On Wed, 4 Oct 2017 00:49:30 -0400, Edward Finnell wrote: > >If we had more info on the problem better suggestions could be provided. One >of the old tricks was to preallocate sortwks and pass them thru the life of >the job. No need to worry about vol=ref > Temporary data sets are a major convenience; one of the few facilities of Classic OS that I miss in UNIX. But the Passed Data Set Queue is a sorry kludge. A smarter interpreter would simply keep temp data sets until the last job step referencing them, then scratch them, similar to the processing of data set ENQs nowadays. The programmer should be able to reference a temp data set multiple times in a step without the VOL=REF circumvention.
I believe the current recommendation is not to preallocate sortwks; DFSORT knows best. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
