You need to post all of the JCL and sort control statements you submitted along with the complete set of messages (including message ids) generated by the sort step.
3. Your SYNCTOOL is correct, as far as I can make out of this thread, what error are you getting? If you wanted to say that, the SYNCTOOL Job ended with RC=16 then I'd say - in OUTFIL statement you're missing "S" in FILENAMES. If that's the problem you get, change this