Hi,
My requirement is to match 2 files(of different record counts) using few key fields and if they match exactly then i need to remove those records from the 1st file. i.e. i need to write only the unmatched records from File-1 to output.
I tried using the MERGE operation which works fine, but the prob is the SORT Order of my original file gets impacted and i am not able to find the original SORT Order to resort the file to its original sort order as LRECL is very large(LRECL=1250). Morever the number of records in the file-1 is also very large. So, when the merged contents are written to a dataset it gets abended due to space issue.
i also tried using SELECT statement from PROC SQL. But still i am facing the same space issue when i write the unmatched contents to a table to be written to the output file.
I tried another option using INDEX function to match the key fields. Here also i encounter a problem. The number of records that can be matched between these 2 files is taken as file-2(which has least count). And so the unmatched records from File-1 that are written to output is exactly till the same count as in File-2. Is there any way to use the INDEX option between 2 files which do not have same number of record counts?
Could you please help me out with any other options for matching these 2 files, which in turn would not require writing the entire contents of File-1 to a dataset (so that i can avoid the space issue)?
Thanks,
San