Frank Yaeger wrote: >It's false. The INCLUDE statement is processed before the SORT statement regardless of the order in which you specify them.
Thanks very much. >For a figure showing the order of processing of DFSORT control statements, see: Thanks for supplying that figure. Who said a pic is worth 1000 words? ;) >Note that OUTFIL INCLUDE is processed after SORT so that would be less efficient than using an INCLUDE statement which is processed before SORT. Thanks about the note about OUTFIL INCLUDE. It is really kind of you for helping out here. 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
