>I'd say it's because eliminating duplicate records isn't really a core feature; it's just a useful by-product of the SUM function.
I'd answer DFSORT has a lot of features which I would not consider core features, which doesn't mean they are not useful. >Obviously, there's a world of divers requirements out there, but SORT focuses on cases where you want to combine information from duplicate keys, not just ignore them. But they did implement the feature with SUM=NONE, didn't they? I'm not complaining, just wondering. -- Peter Hunkeler ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
