Thank you Kathryn; I had come to a conclusion that it was something like that though I admit to being fooled when the "IF" found the correct datasets but the CHANGE did not change them. I did not see the clarity of your explanation in any of the SMP/E manuals which had examples.
Thank you again for the explanation (UNLOAD/EDIT/RELOAD it is)... and yes regular expressions in both the find and change field support would be ah wonderful. :) (still using a hammer and an assembler as my only tools) Ricc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
