SASSHIS5: ICE185A - S0C4 ABEND WAS ISSUED BY DFSORT

Products

• CA 7 Workload Automation

Issue/Introduction

Using parm ZSORT=YES in ICEPRMxx member for IBM DFSORT, program SASSHIS5 will abend with error message:  

ICE185A 0 AN S0C4  ABEND WAS ISSUED BY DFSORT, ANOTHER PROGRAM OR AN EXIT (PHASE S 1) 

 How to bypass this problem? 

 

Environment

Release :  

Component : CA-7

Resolution

This error is solved applying the IBM APAR PH32395.

It will disable ZSORT option for this SORT step, so it will end correctly and probably with message

'ICE267I 0 ZSORT ACCELERATOR PATH NOT USED RSN=nnn'

as all other SORT jobs/steps for which ZSORT is not usable for different reasons.