If you want to do it in Java, it seems like JZOS might be your friend. For example:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/zos/javadoc/jzos/com/ibm/jz os/sample/fields/Smf83BaseRecord.html see also com.ibm.jzos.fields Of course there are all sorts of options for Java classes to build the XML once you have the data in some structure within Java. Scott Chapman ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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