Lizette, You can use the PDS command processor VERIFY subcommand if you are looking for a TSO solution. File 182 on your CBT dial.
Regards, John Kalinich Computer Sciences Corp /* rexx */ "pds 'tridjk.bin' xispmode verify" END OF DATA SET 280 LOGICAL RECORDS WERE INPUT 8 PHYSICAL BLOCKS WERE INPUT 3,120 CHARACTERS IN THE LARGEST PHYSICAL BLOCK 2,800 CHARACTERS PER AVERAGE PHYSICAL BLOCK Lizette Koehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ING.COM> To Sent by: IBM IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Mainframe cc Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU> Re: Better way to count records 04/26/2007 08:04 AM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU> Thanks for all the ideas. I was hoping for something a little more TSO oriented where the end user would only see the count of the file. By doing strictly batch they would need to know JCL and where to look for the output. Most of the people that will be using that cannot spell JCL let alone look though the output. So I am going to write a wrap around the process, a TSO Rexx to get the files they want the counts from, build the batch job and send the output to a file, then when the job completes, have a second process that reads the output and just displays the file name and record count on the TSO screen. Have a great day. 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