>> One statement is: created=C2x(Substr(dcollect.i,105,4)) (In DCOLLECT parlance, this is DCDCREDT).
David, One thing you may want to check is that you are doing the conversion ONLY for Type "D" Records, because position 105 has other data for TYPE V or TYPE DC Thanks, Kolusu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN