PQ50887: SORT MESSAGE "INCORE SORT CAPACITY EXCEEDED" RECEIVED BECAUSE DYNALLOC DEFAULT IS SET TO NO.

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APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Sort message "INCORE SORT CAPACITY EXCEEDED".  Sort work
  datasets are not being allocated dynamically because the
  Sort default for DYNALLOC is set to No.  Rather than have
  users add sork work DDs or change DYNALLOC default, sort will
  be attached setting DYNALLOC to yes for the job.
  

Local fix

• Change DYNALLOC default to yes, or manually override the
  DYNALLOC parameter for the job.
  Or, add sort work DD statements with DDnames of
  FxxxWKyy
  where xxx = 001 through the number of indexes being built
  and yy = 01 through the number of word datasets requested for
  each sort.  For example, if building 2 indexes and requested
  3 work datasets for each, add sort work DD statements for:
  F001WK01, F001WK02, F001WK03, F002WK01, F002WK02, F002WK03.
  

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED: Index Builder V2 users who have their        *
  *                 system-installed DYNALLOC sort parameter set *
  *                 to a default of "NO".                        *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: The customer uses SYSNCSORT. Their      *
  *                      Index Builder job received a WER175A    *
  *                      INCORE SORT CAPACITY EXCEEDED error     *
  *                      message, which caused sort to abend     *
  *                      with ABENDS222.                         *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION: INSTALL CORRECTIVE SERVICE FOR APAR/PTF      *
  ****************************************************************
  The customer's Index Builder job contained sort work DD
  statements that were defined as SORTWKxx. Index Builder invokes
  sort using internally named DD statements.
  As the customer's DYNALLOC default was "NO", Index Builder did
  not dynamically allocate sort work DDs, so when the sort needed
  a sort work DD it failed.
  

Problem conclusion

• Index Builder V2 was changed to include the DYNALLOC sort
  control parameter. This will ensure that regardless of how sort
  has been defined at installation and what DD names may be
  defined in a job's JCL, Index Builder will always
  dynanically allocate as many sort work DDs it needs using
  an internal naming convention.
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

  UQ56695

Modules/Macros

•    IIUBSORT
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  IMS INDEX BUILD

• Fixed component ID

  5655E2400

Applicable component levels

• R210 PSY UQ56695

     UP01/08/07 P F108

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