FastSort Manual

Sorting Interactively
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Understanding Error Messages
For a parallel sort run, FastSort returns some statistics that apply only to the
distributor-collector process. FastSort returns other statistics that are totals from the
distributor-collector process and all subsort processes as shown below:
Understanding Error Messages
When an error occurs during a sort or merge run, the list file shows the FastSort error
message and number of errors detected. By default, the list file is your home terminal.
If an error occurs in the SORTPROG process, the error stops the process. The list file
also shows the file-system error code and the name of the file that caused the error,
such as:
*** ERROR *** THE FROM FILE COULD NOT BE OPENED.
OPERATING SYSTEM ERROR: 11
INPUT FILE: input-file-name
For a parallel sort run, FastSort displays an additional line that identifies the subsort
process:
SORT PROCESS #2: nn,nn
where nn,nn indicates the CPU and process identification number (PIN) of the subsort
process.
FastSort also displays warning messages about incorrect syntax. Warnings do not
interrupt the SORTPROG process. An example of a FastSort warning is:
*** WARNING *** Ignoring unusable string of letters - string
FastSort also displays both the number of errors and warnings detected:
Errors detected: 2
Warnings detected: 7
Appendix B, FastSort Error Messages
lists error codes and text and explains how to
recover from them.
FastSort Process Statistics
Distributor-Collector Process Only RECORDS, BUFFER PAGES, ELAPSED TIME,
INITIAL RUNS, I/O WAIT TIME, FIRST MERGE
ORDER, SCRATCH DISK, MERGE ORDER,
MAX RECORD SIZE, INTERMEDIATE PASSES
Distributor-Collector and Subsort
Processes
COMPARES, SCRATCH SEEKS,
NUMBER OF DUPLICATES