Tony Babonas wrote: >Nah, Yaeger is always one step ahead......... > >I should have added: > >OUTREC OUTFIL=ORPHANS,SAVE
Tony, That would be: OUTFIL FNAMES=ORPHANS,SAVE But I'm guessing that John's point is that the .99 values are only an example and other values (.00 to .99) would actually be present, and those values would end up NOT being aligned by the .99 conditions. If there really only were .99 values, then DFSORT's IFTHEN function could be used to align everything in one pass and one output data set rather than creating multiple output data sets that would need to be combined (replacing multiple OUTFIL INCLUDEs is one of the more efficient uses of IFTHEN). IFTHEN can be used to do this kind of alignment in limited situations, but in this case it appears there's too much variability in the delimited field layouts for that to be practical. Although if I knew all of the possibilities for the record layouts, I might be able to come up with an IFTHEN solution. Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Team (IBM) Specialties: ICETOOL, IFTHEN, OVERLAY, Symbols, Migration => DFSORT/MVS is on the Web at http://www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
