>> Here is my code...can someone help me to get rid of the spaces in the name, >> before the (#### value?
Don, You are complicating a simple request. First build Only the fields you need, and you can add the static characters using LEAD on the SQZ operator. Also, you don't have to get a seqnum in zd format and then convert that into a Alphabet, you can directly use a BINARY format with sequence starting at 193 and it would be the EBCDIC characters. //STEP0100 EXEC PGM=SORT //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=* //SORTIN DD DISP=SHR,DSN=Your.Input.FB.file //SORTOUT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSIN DD * OPTION COPY INCLUDE COND=(1,1,CH,EQ,C'>') INREC BUILD=(55,32,SQZ=(SHIFT=LEFT), 88,06, C',', 49,03, 04,04,UFF,EDIT=(TTTT), SEQNUM,1,BI,START=193,RESTART=(55,32), 80:X) OUTREC BUILD=(01,80,SQZ=(SHIFT=LEFT, LEAD=C'-UTL COPY,TABLE,')) /* The output from this is -UTL COPY,TABLE,B400-BRANCH-BLDG(1001),BRN0400A -UTL COPY,TABLE,B400-TRANHIST(0003),HST0400A -UTL COPY,TABLE,B400-TRANHIST(0004),HST0400B -UTL COPY,TABLE,B400-TRANHIST(0005),HST0400C 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