I would use DFSORT to extract the 0200 records and have your REXX read the smaller file. Your REXX is probably using EXECIO and DFSORT will be able to read through that entire file faster and use much less cpu time.
Have a nice day, Dave Betten DFSORT Development, Performance Lead IBM Corporation email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DFSORT/MVSontheweb at http://www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort/ IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on 05/23/2008 10:25:07 AM: > I would, definitely. > > You can do some Wonderful Things with DFSORT/ICETOOL these days. The > SPLICE operator is particularly wonderful for RACF database unloads > as you can join up base userid records with their segments, so you > can then handle single records at a time in a report instead of > having to go doing subsequent reads for the segments. > > I love Frank Yaeger. He's a God! > > ;-) > > Brian > > > ----------------------------------------- > Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email > Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
