And of course, the standard make a fool of myself in public and immediately 
find a solution involving adding a sequence number field is working for me. 

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> Subject: Should be easy with SORT :) I thought (:
> 
> I have a file with say 4 records:
> FDRABR.VZ21RS2.C1000n00 D05809
> FDRABR.VZ21RSC.C1000n00 D05547
> FDRABR.VFNTCA2.C1000n00 D06255
> FDRABR.VFNTCAT.C1000n00 D06244
> 
> I want a file that is
> Record1||Record3
> Record2||Record4
> That is:
> FDRABR.VZ21RS2.C1000n00 D05809 FDRABR.VFNTCA2.C1000n00 D06255
> FDRABR.VZ21RSC.C1000n00 D05547 FDRABR.VFNTCAT.C1000n00 D06244
> 
> I can't seem to come up with a working SORT incantation to accomplish this,
> I'd also be happy with using another always available IEBxxx, etc. utility. 
> I'd
> rather not Rexx or any other actual programming language.
> 
> Syncsort (MFX) FWIW, but DFSORT control should work also.
> 
> Dave Gibney
> Information Technology Services
> Washington State University
> 
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