On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:25:23 -0600, McKown, John wrote: >The manual is unclear on this. First question: Is this supported? I.e. >will SORTOUT contain only one of the records with the duplicate key? >Second question: Which record will be kept? Random, the one read from >the lowest SORTINnn or the one read from the highest SORTINnn DD >statement? >
We use SYNCSORT... There's a parameter called EQUALS that ensures the first duplicate is the one that will show up on a deduped SORTed/MERGEd file. Does DFSORT have an equivalent ??? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
