David Betten wrote: >It is FALSE. All of the control statements are read at initialization and the include fields are evaluated during the input phase of the sort to select only the records that meet the criteria.
Thanks for your kind answer. Does that means that AFTER reading all the matching input records, that subset is THEN sorted? The reason is I have to select a wide variety of different inputs to produce a subset and THEN sort that lot for reporting. My goal: to have as few bytes to sort after selecting what I need with one pass of the input dataset. I wonder, if I do all my COPY and using INCLUDE statements and then do this two stage method: COPY FROM(INPUT) TO(TEMP1) USING(<dd with INCLUDE>) COPY FROM(TEMP1) TO(TEMP2) USING(<dd with SORT>) Will this work better for large input datasets? >Have a nice day, The same to you! ;-D Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
