>> Kolusu, this works well when I have records to work with, but if I have no >> "D" records (sorry for the fat finger earlier...) to count or sum, I would >> still like to produce a summary. There will be no DEPARTMENT rows, but I >> would like to have the file name Header1, and a TOTAL line with the 0 >> Articles and 0 Items.
Billy, There are different ways of getting results. When the input does NOT have a "D" record, it will still generate the department row as you are using trailer3 and it will have ZERO count and ZERO total. Something like this PROD.A31XAD.IDARTA00 DEPARTMENT 0 ARTICLES, TOTAL ITEMS: 0 *** TOTAL *** : 0 ARTICLES, TOTAL ITEMS: 0 But if you insist on NOT having the Department record, then we need to do it slightly different. PROD.A31XAD.IDARTA00 *** TOTAL *** : 0 ARTICLES, TOTAL ITEMS: 0 What is the preferred output ? the First one or the second one? Thanks, Kolusu DFSORT Development IBM Corporation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
