I know of the NULLOUT and NULLOFL options to specify return code setting if there are no records to be written to the output file. I'm wondering if there is any option I can specify so that the SORTOUT file will not even be opened if there are no records to be written to it. Basically, I want to leave the "old" records that were in SORTOUT alone if there is nothing new to go in to it for this run.
At this point the best thing I can think of is to run SORT twice; the first time copying one record to a dummy file with NULLOUT=RC4 set. Then skipping step 2, the actual copy into the real SORTOUT, if the RC from step 1 is not 0. If there is a program other than SORT (IDCAMS?) that I can use to accomplish this, that's fine as well. No actual sorting is being done; just a straight copy. Thanks, Frank ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
