Dropping duplicates.

Listers, Anyone have any thoughts on this: I have a large sequential file. I need to drop duplicate records from said file. Sort would work fine if I knew the correct key sequence. This information is not imediately available. The file needs to retain its input sequence. Duplicates are

Re: Dropping duplicates.

Thanks Frank, No DFSORT and NO ICETools here. DFSORT would have been great. Regular sort will not work without a Sort or merge statement. The file characteristics are: Organization . . . : PS Record format . . . : FB Record length . . . : 320 Block size . . . . : 27840

Re: EDC8128I Connection refused.

the programmer has extra characters (past column 80) in the SYSIN. FTP treated it as part of the connection name. It would be more helpful to post the output of the job... Steve -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Adrian H Auer-Hudson