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To count no.of records in a file

Postby yousufroushan » Thu Jun 24, 2010 12:47 pm

can we write a JCL to count the no.of records in a given file. The file can be of any type.
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Re: To count no.of records in a file

Postby expat » Thu Jun 24, 2010 12:49 pm

Look at the documentation for your sort product. However, it is probably more efficient for the creating program to issue a record count rather than having to reprocess all of the data again just to get a record count.
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Re: To count no.of records in a file

Postby yousufroushan » Thu Jun 24, 2010 2:35 pm

Thankyou expat for your suggsetion.
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