In my understanding you do not need to sort the file before unless you specify SORTED (that's ask the JOIN operation to not sort the file) while NOSEQCK ask to not verify the records are really sorted (this can lead to errors).
Regards. Massimo 2015-08-07 23:16 GMT+02:00 Ron Thomas <[email protected]>: > Ok. this is working only when i changed the control card as below > > JOINKEYS F1=F1,FIELDS=(1,44,A),SORTED,NOSEQCK > > So just wanted to know whether we need to sort the file before the JOIN > operations > > Thanks > Ron T > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
