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coakman
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Can you create two additonal hold files from the same hold file and then join them?

I am pulling a subset of data into a hold file. I'm then grouping and counting the records in another hold file. I then need to take a subset of the first hold file and count and group that and then join the two hold files that were counted and grouped. When I try to join the hold files I get an error.

Do I have to repull the data from the original tables instead of using the narrowed down hold file? Maybe there is an easier way to do this? I basically need to group by the same thing (vendor number) and count the total records and also count a smaller subset of those records. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

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You can. Let us know what error you are getting.

You may not even need the two additional hold files.

Depending on the subset, you could sort by that subset and do a sum on that. Then at the bottom you can do an overall total. I'll post some code.


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TABLE FILE CAR
SUM 
     CAR.BODY.DEALER_COST
BY  CAR.ORIGIN.COUNTRY
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM NOLEAD 
ON TABLE COLUMN-TOTAL AS 'TOTAL'
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT HTML
ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
     INCLUDE = endeflt,
$
ENDSTYLE
END


Dealer cost per country (sort of a subtotal) with a grand total at the bottom

You should also look up subtotals. There are many posts on this kind of question.


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Consider a "result to code" approach. That is: define what you want (result) and then we can determine how to get there. I'm thinking that all the data is in the initial file, so you don't need multiple hold files. Also consider the multi-verb-request.
 
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coakman
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Thanks so much! I was able to do everything through the one initial hold file by creating IF/THEN statements that calculated a 0 or 1 for what I needed and summed them.


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