Do me a favo(u)r, Antonio... Post some of the HEX values you're seeing for these fields. I think that we can do something useful here. I'm hoping they all start with X'41' or at least something in the X'4X' range...
If they are all X'41' then you can work with the remaining bytes with not much effort. (You can use the rest of the number directly.) If they are all X'4X' but not all X'41' then with the new IFTHEN you can process them. (You need to shift the number by a few powers of 2.) Actually you might see X'5X' values as well, but I doubt it. I'm assuming these are hex floats not binary floats (aka IEEE floats). Where's John Ehrman when you need him? :-) I'll leave it to Frank Yaeger to discuss DFSORT's direct floating point support. IFTHEN is one of the capabilities introduced with APARS UQ95213/UQ95214. But I don't want to go off on a tangent about IFTHEN unless we have the '4X' case rather than the '41' case. One final thing: To really process these particular fields right you need to subtract them. To do that you'd need a previous APAR for DFSORT: UQ90053. I'm sure Frank'd love to tell you all about UQ90053 as well. :-) I just happen to have copies of the "what's new?" guides for both these functional APARs on my desk. And you can get them from the DFSORT website. Hoping this gets you a little further forward. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, MBCS CITP Martin Packer/UK/IBM 020-8832-5167 in the UK (+44) (MOBX 273643, Internal 7-325167, Mobile 07802-245584) "Las cosas de palacio van despacio" External Blog: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/dw_blog.jspa?blog=476 Internal Blog: http://barney.adtech.internet.ibm.com/pilot/weblogs/comments/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
