The JCL for PARASORT is similar to the JCL for a standard disk sort. The primary difference is that PARASORT JCL must specify additional tape units to allow parallel input processing of the SORTIN data set. For details on SORTIN JCL for PARASORT, see SORTIN DD Statement with PARASORT.
To initiate PARASORT using job control statements, specify PARM=PARASORT on the EXEC statement. A program-initiated sort requests PARASORT by using a PARM card image in the data set defined by the $ORTPARM DD statement.