Thank you Berry, "As noted, the Length value of zero is now used to indicate that the actual length is in the first two bytes at the offset, if COUNT is non-zero."
Do you know of a field where this is the case? I've never seen that. Thanks again, Dan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN