>> but seems still not to be correct: Stefan,
You need to explain it a bit more when you say the results are NOT correct. Is it the duplicated data ? or the value itself is wrong? How are you verifying the results? Dump the contents of position 393,8 in hex for may be 20-30 records and then we can verify if the value is converted correctly Thanks, Kolusu DFSORT Development IBM Corporation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN