This option specifies the minimum amount of disk SORTWK space that MAXSORT can use. If the MINWKSP value exceeds the primary allocation and sufficient secondary allocation cannot be obtained to meet the MINWKSP value at the time of execution, the sort terminates. It can be restarted later when more space is available.
The MINWKSP value may be specified as a decimal number of cylinders (n) or a decimal number of megabytes (nM) of work space.
The default MINWKSP value is 500 cylinders.
If MINWKSP is specified as n cylinders, MAXSORT will convert the specification to an actual byte value. MAXSORT will multiply by n the capacity of a cylinder on the disk allocated to the lowest-numbered SORTWKnn DD statement.