>>>sum flelds =(3,4,zd,5,6,zd). ITschak,
I am pretty sure that would result in overlapping error as your summing field at position 3 for 4 bytes extend up to position 6, but your second sum field starts at position 5 which overlaps the first sum field. You should be getting an ICE125A message. >>I would expect to have a single record in the output. however, I get two. what am i missing? If the overlapping fields was a typo, and if you say that you are getting 2 records, then I am guessing that there is an OVERFLOW during summing and you would see an ICE152I message. Check if your joblog has any such message. You can override the return code 0 during overflow by adding the following statement to your control card statement. OPTION OVFLO=RC4 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
