> That was it. I ran a SUPERCE to find the difference. I then did a FIND in > each file for the first difference. The first file had an M in the > position. The second one did not.
John, As Dave Betten kindly pointed it is the order of processing of statements that produced different results. I would suggest that the programmer have this chart handy to understand the order of record processing https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.4.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r4.icea100/ice2ca_DFSORT_processing_.htm#idg7073__stmtseq Thanks, Kolusu DFSORT Development IBM Corporation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
