If there are new records I don't want to retain the old records in the output file. But if there are no new records I want the output file to retain the old records.
>________________________________ > From: Walt Farrell <walt.farr...@gmail.com> >To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu >Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 4:30 PM >Subject: Re: DFSORT, no records for SORTOUT > >On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:22:56 -0700, Frank Swarbrick ><frank.swarbr...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >>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. > >Is there some reason you couldn't just use DISP=MOD on your SORTOUT DD >statement? > >-- >Walt > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
