Thanks Frank, No DFSORT and NO ICETools here. DFSORT would have been great. Regular sort will not work without a Sort or merge statement.
The file characteristics are: Organization . . . : PS Record format . . . : FB Record length . . . : 320 Block size . . . . : 27840 The first eighty bytes look like: 0770753337300000D212300002005060000001435L062M79506 MPC It fills 114 cylinders. Dups are identical records and they should not exist. Thanks again A. Webmaster, <http://www.losangelesmetro.net>. Supporter of "Expo Light Rail - Enabler for the Digital Coast" <http://www.friends4expo.org>. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
