> OK everyone...I figured it out...my problem is that I was BUILDing over > top of the existing data. I just added the PARSEd fields in the INREC to > the end of the record, and moved the INCLUDE to OUTFIL.
Billy, Glad you figured it out. It is always preferable to put the temporary fields at the end of the record using OVERLAY. This would let you have the original data as is. The only issue with this approach is when dealing with Variable Length files and you want to preserve the lengths. By adding the temp fields at the end you make every record the same length which defeats the purpose of variable length records. For VLR you put the temp field right after the RDW and move the contents to the right. Thanks, Kolusu DFSORT Development IBM Corporation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
