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 ...

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 ...