Thanks for all the ideas. I was hoping for something a little more TSO oriented where the end user would only see the count of the file. By doing strictly batch they would need to know JCL and where to look for the output. Most of the people that will be using that cannot spell JCL let alone look though the output.
So I am going to write a wrap around the process, a TSO Rexx to get the files they want the counts from, build the batch job and send the output to a file, then when the job completes, have a second process that reads the output and just displays the file name and record count on the TSO screen. Have a great day. Lizette -- --I have about a billion ways - well not quite - to count records in a data set. I am --looking for advise as to what would be the most efficient way to run either under --TSO or BATCH. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
