by Robert Sample » Thu Jun 02, 2011 4:34 pm
Syncsort will probably handle 4 billion records (2 to the 32nd power) -- although I am not a Syncsort expert or developer and that is just a guess on my part., and it may be able to sort more than that I do know people sort millions of records in files every day using Syncsort (and DFSORT), so half a million records is well within the capabilities of the product. If you are having problems with just half a million, you need to talk to your site support group. The limits that sorts usually reach are not product limits but rather limits based on the site standards as far as number of disk volumes allowed for the sort, or available space on the sort volumes, or CPU limit for the job class, or ....