SORTOPTS

SORTOPTS

Specifies whether the host sort utility supports the OPTIONS statement

Default: SORTOPTS

Valid in: configuration file, SAS invocation, OPTIONS statement, OPTIONS window

Category: Sort: SORT

OS/390 specifics: all

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Syntax

SORTOPTS | NOSORTOPTS

Details

The SORTOPTS option specifies whether the host sort utility accepts the OPTIONS statement. The OPTIONS statement is generated by the host sort interface only if the 31-bit extended parameter list is requested via the SORT31PL option.

If the SORT31PL and NOSORTOPTS options are both specified, then not all of the available sort options can be passed to the host sort utility. This may cause the sort to fail. In particular, the sort work areas may not be used because the SORT option cannot be passed the value of the SORTWKDD= option.

You should therefore specify the DYNALLOC option, even though this may cause problems with multiple sorts within a single job. Older releases of some vendors' sort utilities dynamically allocate sort work files only if they are not already allocated. As a result, subsequent sorts might fail if they require more sort work space than the first sort.

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Default:	SORTOPTS
Valid in:	configuration file, SAS invocation, OPTIONS statement, OPTIONS window
Category:	Sort: SORT
OS/390 specifics:	all