Hi Daniel,
Could I suggest as an interim measure that you only generate and sort 9,999,999 records? The 7 digit limit was inherited from the original OS/360 S/M code that I should have addressed when I was refurbishing the code.
I will expand the record count fields in messages IER054 and IER055 to allow for the maximum record count of a full word value in a later release of the Sort/Merge program.
I am not sure of the original purpose of your project. If it is to generate a workload for your system or to create large data sets then you may find the IVP jobs, IVP4 and IVP5 provided in SORT.MVS38.CNTL in the TK5 system as useful examples.
Regards
Tom
