Totally agree Just trying to provide alternatives that might make sense. I know I love SAS and I tend to do everything in SAS. But my co workers do not use it. So then I either have to super document the process so they can support it
Or find alternatives to do the work that they would be able to support. Today, most users know a little bit about SQL. So a Data base functions starts to make more sense. It is all a matter of perspective. Lizette -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Sri h Kolusu Sent: Friday, September 25, 2020 10:34 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DFSort to pull the latest record date >>If you can load to EXCEL - use its functions Not all functions on the mainframe can do everything. You should look at what makes sense. And if the tool you are comfortable in using, does not have the function, I would say to find one that does. Lizette, EXCEL is limited to 1 million records. And it would take a lot of time to load it and then sort it and then eliminate the duplicates. >>Not all functions on the mainframe can do everything. You should look >>at what makes sense. And if the tool you are comfortable in using, does not have the function, I would say to find one that does. If the file is on mainframe, a Program/Utility should be able to handle it. Thanks, Kolusu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
