How to enable AMISORT for  V13.1.00 of PLUS Utilities ? 

Reference:

https://docs.bmc.com/xwiki/bin/view/Mainframe/Common/BMC-Mainframe-notices/bmcmainframe/Notices-for-BMC-AMI-Data-for-Db2-products/Enhancements-for-BMC-AMI-Data-for-Db2-products/Enhancements-for-BMC-AMI-Data-for-Db2-released-2024/UPDATED-ID-363245-Technical-bulletin-SPE2410-enhancements-to-version-13-1-00-of-PLUS-Utilities

The following PTFs enable the enhancements:

For the first 4 products the related PTF will add  AMISORT NEWFUNC parameter in to the product option macro, which usually needs to be reassembled and re-linked in order to incorporate the new parm and make it available to the utility.  

To activate the use of AMISORT, once the PTF is applied on Runtime Libraries customer needs to add line &NEWFUNC=ENABLE (default for BMCSORT is COMPAT)  to the macro  in the jcl source members AMU$OPTS, ACK$OPTS, ARU$OPTS  and ADU$OPTS located in in hlq.UBMCCNTL, then submit those jobs which will relink the option modules into hlq.UBMCLINK.

This will include statically that new parm in the option modules.

The alternative is to leave &NEWFUNC=COMPAT (default for BMCSORT) in the macro and once the DOPT modules are relinked, then customer can override the option in the following ways:

LOADPLUS / REORG PLUS

Overriding this option

You can override the installation option value NEWFUNC=ENABLE at the JOBSTEP level by using NONEWFNC DD, which is NONEWFNC DD DUMMY. Before enabling AMISORT, you might need to configure a specific DFSMS STORCLAS for dynamic allocation of SORTWORKs. If there is no DFSMS STORCLAS dictated by your installation for allocation of SORTWORKs, you might omit this step, otherwise refer to the specific DYNALOC SORTWORK STORCLAS parameter at the product level.

UNLOAD PLUS

Overriding this option

You can override the installation option value NEWFUNC=ENABLE at the JOBSTEP level by using NONEWFNC DD, which is NONEWFNC DD DUMMY. Before enabling AMISORT, you might need to configure a specific DFSMS STORCLAS for dynamic allocation of SORTWORKs. If there is no DFSMS STORCLAS dictated by your installation for allocation of SORTWORKs, you might omit this step, otherwise refer to the specific DYNALOC SORTWORK STORCLAS parameter at the product level or UNLOAD SORTSTCLAS keyword.

CHECK PLUS

Overriding this option

You can override the installation option value NEWFUNC=ENABLE at the JOBSTEP level by using NONEWFNC DD, which is NONEWFNC DD DUMMY. Before enabling AMISORT, you might need to configure a specific DFSMS STORCLAS for dynamic allocation of SORTWORKs. If there is no DFSMS STORCLAS dictated by your installation for allocation of SORTWORKs, you might omit this step, otherwise refer to the specific DYNALOC SORTCLAS parameter at the product level or CHECK SORTSTCLAS keyword.