Mark,

What is your objection to creating an I descriptor dictionary item?  That 
would be the simplest method.  I am assuming the date is stored in human 
form.

Here's the one I used to test it with.

0001 I 
0002 ICONV(@RECORD<1>,'D')
0003 
0004 I.DATE 
0005 10R 
0006 S 


Gordon J. Glorfield
Sr. Applications Developer
MAMSI (A UnitedHealth Company)
301-360-8839

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/02/2005 08:59:33 AM:

> To All:

> Is there any simple method short of an Itype or called routine to 
convert the
> human date of 12/15/05 into its ICONV version to then sort by.

> I've run into another data file on a customer's system that has this in 
a
> specific place, albeit non-sortable. I could write a [] conversion to 
put the
> year first, but I would like to know of a process code that may help.

> Thanks in advance.
> Mark Johnson
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