For some reason this topic did not show up in my mail box but is available here
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/bit.listserv.ibm-main/p4tGxAcXyPQ/uyoz0k7_y4oJ June, DFSORT can definitely convert the comma delimited file into a fixed length file. As for the conversion of the dates and padding you need to have a second parse to get the values from ZM/ZD/YYYY birth date that needs to be converted to MM/DD/YYYY . Send me a sample of your input and desired output as text files to our hotline at [email protected] or send it to me directly and I will show you a way to do it. Thanks, Kolusu DFSORT Development IBM Corporation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
