>>The default for FCOPY is to copy only non-deleted records. If you want both >>deleted and non-deleted records, you would add the parameter: ;NOKSAM. >>=================== >>Leonard S. Berkowitz Wait... there's got to be more to it than this. Its possible they've created a "logical" delete marker that's part of the data record. In this case you can do... fcopy from=.... ;subset="your delete marker",column #, exclude people used to do this because (among other things) they did not know how to read "deleted" records from a ksam/V file, as in fcopy from=...;nouserlabels;subset=#%377,%377#,,exclude My question now is: How do you resurrect "deleted" records in ksam/XL ?