>>> why am I getting abend0c7? ITschak Mugzach,
Couple of things to check. Do you have any records that have SPACES X'40' or Decimal Dot X'4B' ? Both these would cause an S0C7. If you say the VERIFY operator shows every record as valid, I would like to see the Complete joblog( Both SORT+SUM and the VERIFY). You can send it offline to my email id 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