Item Subject: Message text > I need to be able to sort the SHOWJOB output to sort by job number. I'm > redirecting the output to a file and then using SORT to sort the file with the > job number as the key. The only problem is that the job number output from > SHOWJOB is LEFT justified instead of RIGHT justified and blank or zero > filled. This causes a problem when I use SORT because it uses the first > character that it comes across in the key field to sort the file. As an > example; #J555 wil come before #J61 and after #J1000. > > Does anyone have any solutions to my dilemma? Clint, Guess I would like to know what you are trying to achieve. There may be ways from the CI or programmatically to address this. /isaac