Excel is awful to use. I would recommend doing as much as possible elsewhere before loading into Excel. (Including what some of my code does: Creating the CSV files in DFSORT.)
Cheers, Martin Martin Packer Systems Investigator & Performance Troubleshooter, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://mainframeperformancetopics.com Mainframe, Performance, Topics Podcast Series (With Marna Walle): https://anchor.fm/marna-walle Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu_65HaYgksbF6Q8SQ4oOvA From: Sri h Kolusu <skol...@us.ibm.com> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 25/09/2020 18:34 Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: DFSort to pull the latest record date Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> >>If you can load to EXCEL - use its functions Not all functions on the mainframe can do everything. You should look at what makes sense. And if the tool you are comfortable in using, does not have the function, I would say to find one that does. Lizette, EXCEL is limited to 1 million records. And it would take a lot of time to load it and then sort it and then eliminate the duplicates. >>Not all functions on the mainframe can do everything. You should look at what makes sense. And if the tool you are comfortable in using, does not have the function, I would say to find one that does. If the file is on mainframe, a Program/Utility should be able to handle it. Thanks, Kolusu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
