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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm pretty certain the PH only ever uses sortwork0
and sorwork1, regardless of how many sort files you define. So using VMS
sort after writing to a flat (sub)file, i.e. non-indexed but including data
dictionary, would be a good way to go. There is nothing to stop
you VMSsorting the subfile data file component, and then accessing the now
sorted subfile and continue with other processing.</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=pencarver@sbcglobal.net href="mailto:pencarver@sbcglobal.net">John
Stires</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=powerh-l@lists.sowder.com
href="mailto:powerh-l@lists.sowder.com">powerh-l@lists.sowder.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, May 17, 2006 8:00
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Distributing the load across
SORTWORK files</DIV>
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<DIV>We are doing a very large sort in quiz. It consistently runs for a
time and then dies. We have 10 SORTWORK files defined,
but only one seems to be used. It grows to several million blocks
before the process dies. The others are virtually untouched.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>We are running OpenVMS V6.2 with PowerHouse version 7.10E6.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Does anyone have a suggestion on how to distribute the sort load across
multiple SORTWORK files.</DIV>
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<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Thanks in advance for any help any of you can offer on this.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>John Stires</DIV>
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