OK, thanks to those who responded and pointed out that, since we are dealing with
"strings" here, the 12 AM will be greater than 1AM.
I just was hoping that the CI would be smart enough to evaluate this comparison
"correctly. Since it is pretty clear I am to be disappointed over this one, we have
changed our JCL checks to use HPHOUR and HPMINUTE for these checks.
Terry Simpkins