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System Options under z/OS

SORTOPTS System Option: 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

Syntax
Details

Syntax

SORTOPTS | NOSORTOPTS


Details

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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