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Posted: **Thu Sep 11, 2008 6:41 pm**

Greetings,

Could someone kindly help me figure out what I'm doing wrong. Syncsort version is: 1.2.2.1R

Following is part of the messages in SYSOUT:

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SYSIN :
SORT FIELDS=(5,6,CH,A)
OUTFIL OUTREC=(1:5,100),CONVERT
WER164B 6,904K BYTES OF VIRTUAL STORAGE AVAILABLE, MAX REQUESTED,
WER164B 0 BYTES RESERVE REQUESTED, 1,012K BYTES USED
WER146B 12K BYTES OF EMERGENCY SPACE ALLOCATED
WER108I SORTIN : RECFM=VB ; LRECL= 374; BLKSIZE= 27998
WER110I SORTOUT : RECFM=FB ; LRECL= 120; BLKSIZE= 27960
WER247A SORTOUT HAS INCOMPATIBLE LRECL
WER425A CONVERT FEATURE CANNOT BE USED WITH OVERLAY OR IFTHEN

Following is what the jobstep I'm executing kind of looks like:

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//JS010 EXEC PGM=SORT
//SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=*
//SORTOUT DD DSN=OUTPUT,
// DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE),
// UNIT=SYSDA,
// SPACE=(CYL,(20,20),RLSE),
// DCB=(RECFM=FB,LRECL=120,BLKSIZE=0)
//*
//SORTIN DD DISP=SHR,DSN=IN1
// DD DISP=SHR,DSN=IN2
// DD DISP=SHR,DSN=IN3
//SYSIN DD *
SORT FIELDS=(5,6,CH,A)
OUTFIL OUTREC=(1:5,100),CONVERT
/*

Thanks for your time.

P

Posted: **Mon Sep 15, 2008 9:58 pm**

pmerc8888,

You are specifying an LRECL of 120 in the DCB attributes for SORTOUT, yet you are only OUTRECing 100. This is causing the conflict. Removing the DCB you have hard-coded in the JCL for SORTOUT should resolve this issue.

Regards,

Posted: **Wed Sep 17, 2008 12:00 am**

Thanks heaps, Alissa.

I tried specifying LRECL=100 and removing the DCB. As you would've expected, both worked.

,
P

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