Sounds like a job for the SPLICE operator. Bill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying to find an efficient way to get a > complement of to datasets. As result I expect > the records that appear in FILEA but not in > FILEB. > > Example dataset: > > FILEA: > record a > record b > record c > record d > record e > > FILEA: > record a > record b > record x > record y > record z > > OUTDD: > record c > record d > record e > > DFSORT or ICETOOL are the preferred methods. Can > someone point me to the control statements to use? > > André ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html