Re: Better way to count records

2007-04-27 Thread Joel C. Ewing
Lizette Koehler wrote: 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

Better way to count records

2007-04-26 Thread Lizette Koehler
I have about a billion ways - well not quite - to count records in a data set. I am looking for advise as to what would be the most efficient way to run either under TSO or BATCH. We do have FILEAID and a couple of other tools. We are z/OS V1.7. I want to just find out the total number of

Re: Better way to count records

2007-04-26 Thread james
Lizette Cant think of anything which 'counts' records quicker than DFSORT James F. Smith -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: 26 April 2007 20:36 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Better way to count records

Re: Better way to count records

2007-04-26 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 7:36 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Better way to count records I have about a billion ways - well not quite - to count records in a data set

Re: Better way to count records

2007-04-26 Thread Robert Pelletier
to count records -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 7:36 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Better way to count records I have about a billion ways - well not quite - to count records

Re: Better way to count records

2007-04-26 Thread Mark Jacobs
On Thursday 26 April 2007 08:40, james wrote: Lizette Cant think of anything which 'counts' records quicker than DFSORT James F. Smith I agree. Sort copy to a dummy output file should work fine. -- Mark Jacobs Time Customer Service Tampa, FL - How we behave

Re: Better way to count records

2007-04-26 Thread Mark H. Young
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:36:15 -0400, Lizette Koehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have about a billion ways - well not quite - to count records in a data set. I am looking for advice as to what would be the most efficient way to run either under TSO or BATCH. We do have FILEAID and a couple of

Re: Better way to count records

2007-04-26 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:58:36 -0400, Mark Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 26 April 2007 08:40, james wrote: Lizette Cant think of anything which 'counts' records quicker than DFSORT James F. Smith I agree. Sort copy to a dummy output file should work fine. -- //COUNT EXEC

Re: Better way to count records

2007-04-26 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:04:06 -0400, Lizette Koehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: Better way to count records

2007-04-26 Thread Blaicher, Chris
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 7:36 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Better way to count records We are trying to determine if the space allocation is efficient for these files. There has been a lot of copying of JCL over the years and we feel

Re: Better way to count records

2007-04-26 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:04:06 -0400 Lizette Koehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :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

Re: Better way to count records

2007-04-26 Thread wtrovijo
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Re: Better way to count records

2007-04-26 Thread Gibney, Dave
. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 6:04 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Better way to count records Thanks for all the ideas. I was hoping for something a little more TSO oriented