>> That is good news, but I cannot seem to replicate your results. Bob,
If you noticed my example job keenly, I had the remarks/comments after the Continuation character (-). Btw TOOLIN statements are self-explanatory. You adding the remarks is kind of repeating the statements once again Either way you can something like this //STEP0100 EXEC PGM=ICETOOL //TOOLMSG DD SYSOUT=* //DFSMSG DD SYSOUT=* //INPUTA DD * ABC //INPUT1 DD * DEF IJK //INPUTX DD * ABC XYZ DEF //OUTA DD SYSOUT=* //OUTB DD SYSOUT=* //OUTC DD SYSOUT=* //TOOLIN DD * COPY FROM(INPUTA) - # COPY INPUTA TO OUTA TO(OUTA) COPY FROM(INPUT1) - # COPY INPUT1 TO OUTB TO(OUTB) USING(ALAS) SORT FROM(INPUTX) - # COPY INPUTX TO OUTC TO(OUTC) USING(ALAK) /* //ALASCNTL DD * INREC OVERLAY(10:C'BOB') # Add BOB to every record /* //ALAKCNTL 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