sortwork will be released once the job is done/finished ?

xpower · New User Joined: 07 May 2006 Posts: 35

Hi , Everyone

Assumed that there are 2 jobs,one run at 3 am, and the other one run at 3:05 am. these 2 jobs will also use sort statement and icetool statement,respectively.

Now the former run successfully , however, the latter will always abend becase of ICE046A [SORT RECOVERING FROM B37 ABEND ON SORTWK DATA SET] .

My question is whether i shoud define the dependency for them, that is, once the former is done/finished, will the sortwk be released immediately so that the latter will run job successfully ?

Thanks for your kind advise.

Best Rgds,
Shaw

dick scherrer · Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 8:17 am

Hello,

Yes, if you make job2 dependent on job1, you should avoid this particular problem.

You may still have a problem if some other job(s) allocate large amounts of work space. . .

Suggest you talk with your storage management people to ensure there is enough space allocated to that storage class.

Dave Betten · New User Joined: 24 Jan 2006 Posts: 26

In order to answer you question, we must first determine the actual cause of the ICE046A. If you add //SORTDIAG DD DUMMY to both jobs, DFSORT wll write additional diagnostic messages to sysout. If you then send both sysouts to betten@us.ibm.com, I'll be happy to look them over.

xpower · New User Joined: 07 May 2006 Posts: 35

Dear Dick

Thanks a lot for your suggestion.. Now I am about to doing so .

meanwhile i have already told relative people to ensure the enough space

for my job.