OPTION FILSZ=50,SKIPREC=5,DYNALLOC=3390
 SORT  FIELDS=(1,2,CH,A),SKIPREC=1,SIZE=200,DYNALLOC=(3380,5)

This example shows how parameters specified on the OPTION control statement override those specified on the SORT control statement, regardless of the order of the two statements.

FILSZ

DFSORT expects 50 records on the input data set. (Note that there is a difference in meaning between FILSZ and SIZE and that the OPTION specification of FILSZ is used in place of SIZE.)

SKIPREC

DFSORT causes five records from the beginning of the input file to be skipped. (SKIPREC=1 on the SORT statement is ignored.)

DYNALLOC

DFSORT allocates two work data sets (by default) on an IBM 3390.

FIELDS

The control field begins on the first byte of each record in the input data set, is 2 bytes long, contains character data, and is to be sorted in ascending order.