I know I should really crack the manual, but I was doing an OCCUR on a dataset with 3,617,381 records that condensed into 35,502 ON values and I kept getting a B37, even if I allocated the output dataset with 4,000,000 records.
Is there a limit to the no of ON values that OCCUR can handle? and if so, how come it doesn't give me RC=12 or RC=16?
In the end I used a SORT and it worked ok, so nothing wrong with the ip dataset.
Joined: 18 Nov 2006 Posts: 3156 Location: Tucson AZ
Your B37 is not internal COBOL limits, it is DASD allocation. You might have specified 4,000,000 records, but is there enough contiguous space in the DASD pool to accommodate it according to the allocation rules?
I use the COPY in TOOLIN to strip off the CC and reformat from LREC=L251
The input dataset is LRECL=5 and just a series of mostly blanks, with several five digit numbers and a handful of character strings, 35050 different values in all.
Unfortunately, I no longer have the error output, but if you're saying there's no limit to the no of values the OCCUR can handle, then I guess that's not what was causing the problem.
William has a good point. I'll try and rerun it and see if I get a VIO message, or see if I get an overflow that refers to the pool and not the specific dataset.
I always get caught out when I'm trying to be too smart. Look at that TEMP file: I've got into a bad habit of only using DISP and DSN when allocating those (because I can never remember how the DCB parms go). The problem was that there's a limit to how big a file you can crate without giving it DCB info.
Check out the output:
Code:
IGD101I SMS ALLOCATED TO DDNAME (TEMP1 )
DSN (SYS07225.T170202.RA000.XXXXXXXX.TEMP.H05)
STORCLAS (STANDARD) MGMTCLAS ( ) DATACLAS (DCNULLS)
VOL SER NOS=,VIO,
IEF237I JDEV ALLOCATED TO TOOLIN
IEF237I JDEV ALLOCATED TO CTL1CNTL
IEC030I B37-04,IFG0554A,XXXXXXXX,JS0030,TEMP1,VIO , ,SYS07225.T170202.RA000
WER999A XXXXXXXX,JS0030 , - UNSUCCESSFUL SORT B37 S REASON=00000004
IEA995I SYMPTOM DUMP OUTPUT
SYSTEM COMPLETION CODE=B37 REASON CODE=00000004
Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 7129 Location: San Jose, CA
[posted before I saw your previous post and possibly now irrelevant.]
helga,
The number of ON values doesn't matter. The space you allocate for the data set vs the space needed does matter.
An OCCUR does a sort. You didn't say which data set you got the B37 for. Was it a work data set (e.g. SORTWKdd) or the OUT1 data set or the TEMP1 data set?
Look at that TEMP file: I've got into a bad habit of only using DISP and DSN when allocating those (because I can never remember how the DCB parms go). The problem was that there's a limit to how big a file you can crate without giving it DCB info.
