To SORT a group of records under a unique Header

dinfeo · New User Joined: 07 Jun 2012 Posts: 20 Location: India

Hi Bill,

Initial input record length is 472 bytes. During SORT, the input length is changed to 492 bytes and then sorted; Final output is 472 bytes.

So there is an increase in 20 bytes from the actual input.

This is all I can get from this SORT Message. If this is not sufficient may I didn't understood your question ?

Bill Woodger · Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 3:15 pm

According to this the message just comes when INREC creates a record bigger than the OUTREC.

Since you need that extension for your Sort, and otherwise everything is working, I think you can just run with it.

I'd drop the columns: to make things easier to read, but what the heck?

Good spots Naish.

EDIT: Note that you could have done the search as well, dinfeo.

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 5:21 pm

WER238I is essentially an informational message. It usually surfaces when INREC control has been used to increase the input record length. SyncSort says, "this can reduce SyncSort performance because a larger volume of data is being processed than if the OUTREC control statement were used to perform the same function. Typically, increasing the record length with INREC is only useful when expanding SUM fields with leading zeros to prevent an overflow condition during SUM."