Why browse is substituted on big datasets?

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arrbee
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Why browse is substituted on big datasets?

Post by arrbee » Fri Feb 24, 2006 11:45 am

Hi,

Why browse is substituted if one tries to view or edit a dataset with huge no. of records?

Please explain.
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Post by Rupesh.KOthari » Fri Feb 24, 2006 6:10 pm

HI,
Why browse is substituted if one tries to view or edit a dataset with huge no. of records?
In Mainframe it is default that we can not open Big dataset in View or edit mode. so it automatically open in browse option...


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