Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

Magesh_j wrote: mahigill,

I think still my solution works when file01<file02.

What made you think in other way.

Regards,
Magesh

It'll work, no question on that but what will be the return code? That's what I was saying. Topic author might be intrested in that.

10667 Mahigill, using sort fields unnecessarily is waste of cpu resource. Even u can use joinkeys to achive this, sill requires three pass. In other words there are many ways to achieve. Your goal should be providing optimal solution if possible, rather than a solution It might not be optimal but I...

Hi,

I am also from India.

You can also do this it like this: //S1 EXEC PGM=ICETOOL //TOOLMSG DD SYSOUT=* //DFSMSG DD SYSOUT=* //CON DD DSN=... input file1 // DD DSN=... input file2 //T1 DD DSN=&&T1,UNIT=SYSDA,SPACE=(TRK,(1,1)),DISP=(,PASS) //TOOLIN DD * SORT FROM(CON) USING(CTL1) COUNT FROM(T1) NOTEMPTY RC4 /* //CTL1...