SAP ABAP Data Element DB2BSTWFT (Number of merge passes requested for DB2 sort activities)
Hierarchy
SAP_BASIS (Software Component) SAP Basis Component
   BC-DB-DB2 (Application Component) DB2 for z/OS
     STU2 (Package) CCMS for DB2 for OS/390
Basic Data
Data Element DB2BSTWFT
Short Description Number of merge passes requested for DB2 sort activities  
Data Type
Category of Dictionary Type D   Domain
Type of Object Referenced     No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type DB2DEC19V    
Data Type DEC   Counter or amount field with comma and sign 
Length 19    
Decimal Places 0    
Output Length 26    
Value Table      
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No Input History    
Basic direction is set to LTR    
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Field Label
  Length  Field Label  
Short 10 Merge pass 
Medium 15 Merge passes 
Long 20 Merge passes 
Heading 12 Merge passes 
Documentation

Definition

Total number of work files that were requested for all of the merge passes.
For DB2 to perform efficient prefetch for work files, each work file should have at least 16 dedicated buffers. Work files used during sort phase processing at other non-sort-related processing are not included in this statistics counter.

History
Last changed by/on SAP  20110908 
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