The MAXSORT technique is recommended for sorting very large amounts of data when disk work space is limited. With this technique, SORTWK requirements are independent of SORTIN size; thus, regardless of the size of the file, it can be sorted by one sort program using disk work files. MAXSORT’s breakpoint/restart capability breaks the overlarge sorting application into smaller individual sorts; high priority jobs can execute between these smaller sorts without forcing any data to be resorted. See MAXSORT.