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Charles Wolters
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I have a data set of approximately ten million records and what I would like to do is simply copy the first 500 records and the last 500 records to a new data set. I found a couple of posts where this was easily done with ICETOOL but in checking with our mainframe support people they say ICETOOL is not on our system. I have considered SYNCSORT which has the INCLUDE/OMIT statements but then how would I refer to the sequence or position of the records in the file? What I want is an equivalent of the HEAD and TAIL commands in UNIX.
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enrico-sorichetti
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odd installation,
whatever the sort product ICETOOL and SYNCTOOL are there
but if on the other side ICETOOL/SYNCTOOL is frowned upon that' s a completely different can of worms
( who - the worms - got fat by eating the neurons of the person who dictated the stupid rule ) |
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Charles Wolters
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Enrico,
It will take me a few minutes to put together a program using ICETOOL.I will submit it and if you are correct in your assertion then I guess our mainframe technical support group will need to attend re-education camp.
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Charles Wolters
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Yep. ICETOOL was there. I used some code posted by Frank Yaeger a few years ago and all is good.
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Anuj Dhawan
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Actually, as Enrico has pointed out - at Sync-Sort shops, ICETOOL is aliased to SYNCTOOL. If you look at the SYSOUT of your Job, you'll find SYNCTOOL for Sync-Sort is invoked under the covers. (SYTxxx messages)
Saying, "ICETOOL was there" is subjective, because ICETOOL have it's official documentation and support available while for SYNCTOOL it is not. |
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Frank Yaeger
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If the messages in DFSMSG start with ICE, you are using DFSORT's ICETOOL.
If the messages in DFSMSG start with SYT, you are using Syncsort's SYNCTOOL. |
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