> Maybe it makes no difference? Cameroon,
For Unique keyed files it does NOT make a difference if you have the larger file as F1 or F2. If your files have lot of duplicates, then we suggest to use F1 for the larger file. >>What if you created AIX and eliminate the SORT? Edward Finnell, The idea of using JOINKEYS to extract the records from the master file (VSAM file) for a subset of keys ( probably Error or Mismatch records) and probably do some kind of verification. I am not sure as how creating an AIX would solve the problem. Thanks, Kolusu DFSORT Development IBM Corporation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
