| System Options under z/OS |
Specifies whether the host sort utility supports the OPTIONS
statement.
| Default: |
SORTOPTS
|
| Valid in: |
configuration file, SAS invocation, OPTIONS
statement, OPTIONS window
|
| Category: |
Sort: SORT
|
| PROC OPTIONS GROUP= |
SORT
|
| z/OS specifics: |
all
|
The SORTOPTS option specifies whether
the host sort utility accepts the OPTIONS statement. The OPTIONS statement
is generated by the host sort interface only if the 31-bit extended parameter
list is requested via the SORT31PL option.
If the SORT31PL and NOSORTOPTS options are both specified,
then not all of the available sort options can be passed to the host sort
utility. The sort might fail if all of the options cannot be passed to the
utility. In particular, the sort work areas cannot be used because the SORT
option cannot be passed the value of the SORTWKDD= option.
You should therefore specify the DYNALLOC option, even
though this specification can cause problems with multiple sorts within a
single job. Older releases of some vendors' sort utilities dynamically allocate
sort work files only if they are not already allocated. As a result, subsequent
sorts might fail if they require more sort work space than the first sort.
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