SortWork

[Eric Mintz]

Hi Terry,

I’ve checked with our services team and have the following response:

The sortwork file changes privileges… There are 2 options…
1)Delete the sortwork regularly or change the permissions regularly…
2) Find out what’s changing the permissions  they likely have a job that’s coming in with different permissions and maybe it can’t delete the file so it leaves it around and the regular users can’t use the file as it’s owned differently…
The reason they can’t use the sortwork.tmp is configuration they need to point it to a location that the users can access.  Right now it’s likely pointed to $SYS and they can’t  write to it.. so the program has no choice but to abort as they can’t sort…

Let us know if this works.
Thanks,
Eric Mintz
Fresche Solutions
www.freschesolutions.com<http://www.freschesolutions.com>


From: powerh-l <powerh-l-bounces at lists.sowder.com> On Behalf Of tadjodha at stlucianic.org
Sent: July 25, 2018 3:47 PM
To: powerh-l at lists.sowder.com
Subject: SortWork


  OpenVMS (TM) Alpha Operating System, Version V8.3
   PowerHouse 8.40g


Hi

      The SORTWORK0.tmp and SORTWORK1.tmp files are created by the system by default.
      At certain times coworkers get a sortwork error  ;

 %SORT-E-OPENOUT error opening DATA_RAID:[NIS.SCL.840]<SORTWORK files 0 + 1>     insufficient privilege or file protection violation
 %SORT-I-USE-ALT   using alternate work file  SORTWORK.tmp

   The program is then cut off. When I reset the security on the SORTWORK files everything goes back to normal.

   How can I rectify this situation permanently. Thanks in advance.



Regards


Terry


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