<snip> Something that I'd like to see inPoOps is an example of using UNPK and TR to convert binary to hexadecimal.</snip>
You can't "convert" binary to hexadecimal, their bit patterns are the same. If you're referring to displaying bytes' hexadecimal representation in EBCDIC, then I'd say it's a bit late for that. Thanks to a tip from Rob Scott on this list several years ago, I like using TROT, especially when writing out a considerable amount of storage, like a dump. The TROT table starts thus: DC C'000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F' ... and continues for the obvious 15 more lines. sas