Excluding blanks is easiest:

EXCLUDE COND=(1,9,CH,EQ,C'         ')

Including only numeric I'm not as sure of. You might try:

INCLUDE COND=(1,9,FS,EQ,NUM)

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> [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Howard Brazee
> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 10:59 AM
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> Subject: Quick Sort question
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> We have a lot of jobs that use the following SORTIN
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> SORT FIELDS=(01,009,A),  
>        FORMAT=CH         
> SUM FIELDS=NONE          
> 
> What is the simplest ways to change this to ensure that either we
> exclude blank data or only include numeric IDs here?
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