>> Alas, ICETOOL does not support the same kind of comments. Bob,
Not sure what you meant by that. ICETOOL statements TOOLIN and XXXCNTL do support comments. Here is an example. //STEP0100 EXEC PGM=ICETOOL //TOOLMSG DD SYSOUT=* //DFSMSG DD SYSOUT=* //IN DD * ABC DEF //CTL1OUT DD SYSOUT=* //TOOLIN DD * SORT FROM(IN) - # My comment in toolin USING(CTL1) /* //CTL1CNTL DD * SORT FIELDS=(1,3,CH,D) # sort field-1 Desc /* 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