Lizette Cant think of anything which 'counts' records quicker than DFSORT
James F. Smith -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: 26 April 2007 20:36 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Better way to count records I have about a billion ways - well not quite - to count records in a data set. I am looking for advise as to what would be the most efficient way to run either under TSO or BATCH. We do have FILEAID and a couple of other tools. We are z/OS V1.7. I want to just find out the total number of records in a PS file. If I write a REXX using EXECIO then I run into region size problems if there is a huge number of records. If I write an assembler program, then someone would need to maintain it (I am the only one that does assembler at this shop). So just looking for some additional thoughts as to what I can use to just get a record count. We are trying to determine if the space allocation is efficient for these files. There has been a lot of copying of JCL over the years and we feel that perhaps this is causing some issue because a lot of the files are being resized by DTS Software (DIF and SRS). This we believe is adding to the long run times of these jobs. If the files could be sized better, then perhaps the jobs would not run as long. All thoughts and opions are appreciated. Lizette ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
