1. Are the values of Adress_Length correct? 2. If your records are VB format, you'll need to get SAS processing it properly. I don't have any way to test is, but I recall that on S370 VB records have a four-byte length field preceding the record data. You'll need to get SAS to use it correctly. Don't worry about getting the fields out of the record for now; just figure out how to correctly read each record without overlapping into the next. Then the fields should be fairly easy. Tom
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